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Table 3 Critical Appraisal for RCTs

From: Oral cryotherapy for management of chemotherapy‐induced oral mucositis in haematopoietic cell transplantation: a systematic review

Author/Year of publication

Random Sequence generation (Selection Bias)

Allocation Concealment (Selection Bias)

Blinding Participant/Personnel (Performance Bias)

Blinding Outcome Assessment (Detection Bias)

Incomplete Outcome Data (Attrition Bias)

Selective Reporting (Reporting Bias)

Other Biases

Lilleby et al. 2006 [25]

Gori et al. 2007 [33]

Svanberg et al. 2007 [26], Svanberg et al. 2010 [27]

Salvador et al. 2012 [28]

Askarifar et al. 2016 [29]

Marchesi et al. 2016 [30]

Kamsvag et al. 2020 [32]

Lu et al. 2020 [31]

  1. The interventional RCTs are listed and identified by author and year of publication. The Cochrane collaboration’s tool for assessing risk of bias in RCTs adopted from Higgins et al. 2011 [24], was used as a critical appraisal tool to identify and highlight potential areas of bias in each included study
  2. Key: Low risk bias; High risk of bias; Unclear risk of bias