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Table 3 - Quality Assessment of Included Studies

From: Non-pharmacological interventions and corticosteroid injections for the management of the Achilles tendon in inflammatory arthritis: a systematic review

Author, year

Sequence Generation / Allocation Concealment (internal validity)

Blinding of Participants, Personnel, and Outcome Assessors (internal validity)

Incomplete Outcome Data (internal validity)

Selective Outcome Reporting / Statistical Issues (internal validity)

Interventions (internal validity)

Generalisability (external validity)

Internal Validity

External Validity

Huang et al. [26]

N/A

N/A

Yes

No

No

No

Low

Low

Srivastava & Aggarwal [27]

N/A

N/A

Yes

No

No

No

Low

Low

  1. Same checklist used for all study designs but N/A for domains 1 and 2 for study designs other than RCT
  2. N/A Not applicable
  3. 3 domains for Internal Validity
  4. YES for all of the domains = HIGH QUALITY
  5. NO for any domain = LOW QUALITY
  6. 1 domain for External Validity
  7. YES for domain = HIGH QUALITY
  8. NO for domain = LOW QUALITY