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Table 3 Quality assessment of the nonrandomized trials using ROBINS-I

From: Lithium carbonate as add-on therapy to radioiodine in the treatment on hyperthyroidism: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Study

Domain

Oszukowska et al. 2010

Sekulić et al. 2017

Brownlie et al. 1979

Pre-intervention

 Bias due to confounding

Probably No

Probably No

No Information

 Bias in selection of participants into the study

Probably No

No

No Information

At intervention

 Bias in classification of interventions

No

No

No

Post-intervention

 Bias due to deviations from intended interventions

No

No

No

 Bias due to missing data

No Information

No Information

Probably Yes

 Bias in measurement of outcomes

Probably Yes

No

Probably No

 Bias in selection of the reported result

No

No

Probably Yes

Overall risk of bias

Low risk bias

Low risk of bias

High risk of bias