Table 4 Quality assessment of included studies
From: Efficacy of acupuncture in children with asthma: a systematic review
Author (year) | Random sequence generation (selection bias) | Allocation concealment (selection bias) | Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) | Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) | Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) | Selective reporting (reporting bias) | Did the analysis include an intent-to-treat analysis? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Karlson and Bennicke (2013) [15] | Y | NA | N | N | Y | Y | NA |
Scheewe et al. (2011) [16] | Y | NA | N | NA | Y | Y | NA |
Nedeljković et al. (2008) [17] | Y | NA | N | NA | NA | Y | NA |
Stockert et al. (2007) [18] | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N |
Gruber et al. (2002) [19] | Y | NA | Y | Y | NA | Y | NA |
Fung et al. (1986) [20] | Y | NA | Y | N | NA | Y | NA |
Chow et al. (1983) [21] | Y | NA | Y | N | NA | Y | NA |