Review Article

Tianma Gouteng Yin as Adjunctive Treatment for Essential Hypertension: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials

Table 3

Quality assessment of included randomized controlled trials.

Included trialsRandom sequence generationAllocation concealmentBlinding of participants and personnelBlinding of outcome assessmentIncomplete outcome dataSelective reportingOther sources of biasRisk of bias

Wang et al., 1998 [63]UnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearYesNoUnclearHigh
Ren and Zhao, 2012 [64]Table of random numberUnclearUnclearUnclearYesNoUnclearUnclear
Fu, 2005 [65]UnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearYesNoUnclearHigh
Qin, 2010 [66]UnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearYesNoUnclearHigh
Hu et al., 2009 [67]Simple random samplingUnclearYesUnclearNoNoUnclearUnclear
Sun and Huang, 2007 [68]UnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearNoNoUnclearHigh
Wang et al., 2008 [69]UnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearYesNoUnclearHigh
Fang et al., 2008 [70]UnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearNoNoUnclearHigh
Li, 2006 [71]UnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearYesNoUnclearHigh
Liu, 2011 [72]UnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearYesNoUnclearHigh
Liu et al., 2009[73]UnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearYesNoUnclearHigh
Chen, 2009 [74]DrawingUnclearUnclearUnclearNoNoUnclearUnclear
Zhang and Yang, 2011 [75]Table of random numberUnclearUnclearUnclearYesNoUnclearUnclear
Liu and Li, 2011 [76]UnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearNoNoUnclearHigh
Wei, 2012 [77]UnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearYesNoUnclearHigh
Li, 2011 [78]UnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearYesNoUnclearHigh
Lin and Liu, 2010 [79]UnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearYesNoUnclearHigh
Zhou and Zhang, 2011 [80]Table of random numberUnclearUnclearUnclearNoNoUnclearUnclear
Chen, 2008 [81]DrawingUnclearUnclearUnclearNoNoUnclearUnclear
Du, 2012 [82]UnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearYesNoUnclearHigh
Cheng, 2010 [83]UnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearYesNoUnclearHigh
Zhu, 2009 [84]Table of random numberUnclearUnclearUnclearNoNoUnclearUnclear