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Table 2 Assessment of the risk of bias of each included trials

From: Stress ulcer prophylaxis with proton pump inhibitors or histamine 2 receptor antagonists in critically ill adults - a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials with trial sequential analysis

First author /Publication year

Adequate Sequence

Generation

AllocationConcealment

Blinding of participants and personnel

Blinding of outcome assessment

Incomplete

Outcome Data

Selective

reporting

Other Bias

Overall risk of bias

Alhazzani/2017

L

L

L

L

L

L

L

L

Apte/1992

unclear

unclear

H

unclear

L

L

H

H

Basso/1981

L

unclear

H

L

H

H

unclear

H

Ben-Menachem/1994

L

L

H

L

H

L

L

H

van den Berg /1985

unclear

unclear

L

L

L

H

L

H

Burgess/1995

L

unclear

L

L

H

L

unclear

H

Calvet/1998

unclear

L

L

L

L

H

L

H

Darlong/2003

unclear

unclear

H

unclear

H

H

L

H

El-Kersh/2018

L

L

L

L

L

L

L

L

Friedman/1982

unclear

unclear

L

L

L

H

H

H

Groll/1986

unclear

unclear

L

L

L

L

H

H

Gursoy/2008

L

unclear

L

L

L

L

L

H

Halloran/1980

L

unclear

L

L

L

L

H

H

Hanisch/1998

L

L

L

L

L

L

L

L

Kantorova/2004

L

L

unclear

L

L

L

unclear

H

Karlstadt/1990

unclear

unclear

L

L

L

L

unclear

H

Krag/2018

L

L

L

L

L

L

L

L

Lin/2016

unclear

unclear

unclear

unclear

L

L

L

H

Liu/2013

L

unclear

unclear

unclear

L

L

unclear

H

Macdougall/1977

unclear

unclear

H

H

L

L

unclear

H

Martin/1993

unclear

unclear

L

L

L

L

H

H

Metz/1993

L

L

L

L

L

H

H

H

Nourian/2018

L

unclear

unclear

unclear

L

L

L

H

Peura/1985

unclear

unclear

L

L

L

L

L

H

Powell/1993

H

H

H

unclear

L

L

L

H

Reusser/1990

unclear

unclear

H

unclear

L

L

L

H

Ruiz-Santana/1991

unclear

unclear

H

H

H

L

L

H

Selvanderan/2016

L

unclear

L

L

L

L

L

H

Zinner/1981

L

H

H

unclear

H

unclear

L

H

  1. L low, H high