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Table 3 Quality assessment scores of included studies

From: The role of wearable devices and objective gait analysis for the assessment and monitoring of patients with lumbar spinal stenosis: systematic review

Study

Question/objective

Study design

Subject and/or comparison group selection

Subject and/or comparison group characteristics

Random allocation

Blinding of investigators

Blinding of participants

Outcome and exposure measures

Sample size

Analytic measures

Estimate of variance

Confounding

Results

Conclusion

Summary score

Nagai et al. 2014 [13]

Yes

Partial

No

Yes

N/A

N/A

N/A

Partial

Partial

Partial

Yes

No

Partial

Yes

0.54

Lee et al. 2017 [22]

Partial

Partial

Partial

Yes

N/A

N/A

N/A

Partial

Partial

Partial

Yes

No

Partial

Partial

0.46

Sun et al. 2018 [3, 21]

Yes

Yes

Partial

Yes

N/A

No

N/A

Yes

Partial

Partial

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

0.71

Loske et al. 2018 [23]

Yes

Yes

Partial

Yes

N/A

No

N/A

Partial

Partial

Partial

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

0.67