Table 3 Quality assessment
From: Early and late Iron supplementation for low birth weight infants: a meta-analysis
1st AU (year) | Random sequence generation | Allocation concealment | Blinding of participants and personnel | Blinding of outcome assessment | Incomplete outcome data | Selective reporting | Did the analysis include an intention-to-treat analysis? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Joy [17] | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | Y | NA |
Sankar [18] | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | Y | Y |
Arnon [19] | Y | NA | NA | Y | Y | Y | NA |
Franz [21] | Y | Y | N | N | Y | Y | Y |
Jansson [20] | Y | NA | NA | NA | Y | Y | Y |