Table 2 Modified Downs and Black Quality Index results for each study
From: The effect of foot orthoses and in-shoe wedges during cycling: a systematic review
| Â | 1. Clear aim/ hypothesis | 2. Outcome measures clearly described | 3. Charateristics of patients included clearly described | 4. Interventions of interest clearly described | 6. Main findings clearly described | 7. Measures of random variability provided | 10. Actual probability values reported | 11. Subjects asked to participate representative of population | 12. Subjects prepared to participate representative of population | 14. Blinding of subjects | 15. Blinding of outcome assessor | 16. Analyses performed were planned; no data dredging | 18. Appropriate statistical tests used | 20. Valid and reliable outcome measures | Total (score out of 14) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Anderson & Sockler, 1990.[19] | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | U | U | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
Bousie et al., 2013.[17] | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | U | U | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 |
Dinsdale & Williams, 2010.[4] | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | U | U | 0 | 0 | U | 1 | U | 7 |
Hice et al., 1985.[18] | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | U | U | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
Koch et al., 2013.[7] | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | U | U | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | U | 10 |
O’Neill et al., 2011.[20] | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | U | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 |