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Table 2 Risk of publication bias

From: Catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Study (year)

Random sequence generation

Allocation concealment

Blinding of participants and personnel

Blinding of outcome assessment

Incomplete outcome data

Selective reporting

Other sources of bias

Khan (2008)[31]

+

?

+

+

+

+

Macdonald (2010)[32]

+

+

+

+

+

+

Jones (2013)[30]

+

?

+

+

+

+

Hunter (2014)[29]

+

+

+

+

+

+

Di Biase (2016)[28]

+

?

+

+

+

+

Prabhu et al. 2017[34]

+

?

+

+

+

+

Marrouche (2018)[33]

+

?

+

+

+

  1. “+” = low bias risk; “-”= substantial bias risk; “?” = unclear bias risk