Comparing clinical outcomes of piperacillin-tazobactam administration and dosage strategies in critically ill adult patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Table 3 Quality assessment of randomised control trials in meta-analysis based on the Jadad Scale

Quality assessment of RCT’s	Lau [14]	Rafati [15]	Robert [17]	Li [19]	Ye [20]	Lu [26]	Jamal [28]	Abdul [33]	Cotrina [29]	Bao [32]
	2006	2006	2009	2010	2011	2013	2015	2016	2016	2017
⁽¹⁾ Described as randomised	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
⁽²⁾ Described as double blind	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
⁽³⁾ Description of withdrawals	1	1	1	1	0	1	1	1	1	1
⁽⁴⁾ Randomisation method described	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	1	1
⁽⁵⁾ Double blinding method described	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Score (−/5)	3/5	2/5	3/5	3/5	1/5	2/5	3/5	3/5	5/5	3/5

RCT’s Randomised Control Trials
Randomisation:
Up to two points are given⁽¹⁾: described as randomised (yes = 1) (no = 0) and⁽⁴⁾randomisation method described (yes = 1) (no = 0)
Double blinding:
Up to two points are given⁽²⁾: described as double blind (yes = 1) (no = 0) and⁽⁵⁾double blinding method described (yes = 1) (no = 0)
Reports of withdrawals and dropouts:
Up to one point is given⁽³⁾: Description of withdrawals (yes = 1) (no = 0)

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