Research Article

The Effects of Wenxin Keli on Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction and Brain Natriuretic Peptide in Patients with Heart Failure: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

Table 2

Quality assessment of the included randomized controlled trials.

Included trialsSequence
generation
Allocation
concealment
Blinding of participants personnelBlinding of outcome assessorsIncomplete
outcome
data
Selective
outcome
reporting
Other sources of biasRisk of bias

Wang et al. 2009 [8]UnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearNoUnclearHigh
Weng 2012 [9]Unclear UnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearNoUnclearHigh
Yu et al. 2006 [10]Table of random
number
UnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearNoUnclearUnclear
Jia et al. 2011 [11]UnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearYesNoUnclearHigh
Jin 2010 [12]UnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearNoNoUnclearHigh
Yue et al. 2012 [13]UnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearYesNoUnclearHigh
Kong et al. 2009 [14]UnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearNoUnclearHigh
Yang and Dong
2009 [15]
UnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearNoUnclearHigh
Hu 2010 [16]UnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearNoUnclearHigh
Wang 2012 [17]UnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearNoUnclearHigh
Xu 2012 [18]UnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearUnclearNoUnclearHigh