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Table 2 Risk of bias of included studies

From: Words or numbers? Communicating risk of adverse effects in written consumer health information: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Study

Random sequence generation

Allocation concealment

Incomplete outcome data

Selective reporting

Berry 2002 Study 1 [10]

Unclear

Unclear

Low

Low

Berry 2002 Study 2 [10]

Unclear

Unclear

Low

Low

Berry 2003 Study 1 [11]

Unclear

Unclear

Low

Low

Berry 2003 Study 2 [11]

Unclear

Unclear

Low

Low

Berry 2004 [12]

Unclear

Unclear

Low

Low

Berry 2006 [13]

Unclear

Unclear

Unclear

Low

Knapp 2004 [14]

Unclear

High

Unclear

Low

Knapp 2009a [8]

Low

Low

Unclear

Low

Knapp 2009b Study 1 [8]

Low

Low

Unclear

Low

Knapp 2009 Study 2 [15]

Low

Low

Unclear

Low