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Table 3 Quality assessments of studies included in the meta-analysis

From: Short-and long-term effects of ischemic postconditioning in STEMI patients: a meta-analysis

Study

Year

Randomization

Blinded assessment

Dropout rate (%)

Similar baseline

Staat

2005

yes

no

unclear

yes

Ma

2006

yes

no

unclear

yes

Ma

2007

yes

no

unclear

yes

Yang

2007

yes

unclear

unclear

yes

Laskey

2008

yes

unclear

0

yes

Thibault

2008

yes

single-blind

0

yes

Lin1

2010

yes

no

unclear

yes

Lin2

2010

yes

no

unclear

yes

Lonborg

2010

yes

unclear

0.26

yes

Sorensson

2010

yes

no

0.15

yes

Xue

2010

yes

unclear

0

yes

Garcia

2011

yes

unclear

0

yes

Liu

2011

yes

unclear

0

yes

Freixa

2012

yes

no

0

yes

Tarantini

2012

yes

no

0.04

yes

Thuny

2102

yes

no

0.19

yes

Zhao

2012

yes

no

0.09

yes

Dwyer

2013

yes

unclear

0.23

yes

Elzbieciak

2013

yes

no

0

yes

Hahn

2013

yes

no

0.04

yes

Mewton

2013

yes

no

0

yes

Sorensson

2013

yes

no

0

yes

Dong

2014

yes

unclear

0

yes

Limalanathan

2014

yes

no

0.08

yes

Waltenberger

2014

yes

single-blind

0.13

yes