The quality of included studies were assessed by use of the Cochrane “assessing risk of bias” table as exemplified in the Cochrane Collaboration guidelines.[13] The table has 6 assessment items, which are: random sequence generation, allocation concealment, blinding of patients and personnel, blinding of outcome assessment, incomplete outcome data, and selective reporting risk.
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