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Treating Chronic Pain with SSRIs: What Do We Know?

Table 3

Assessment of the risk of bias of the included studies.

ReferenceRandom sequence generationAllocation concealmentBlinding of participants and personnelBlinding of primary outcome assessmentIncomplete outcome dataSelective reporting

[38]?
[32]?
[41]?+
[16]
[34]?
[35]?+++
[43]?
[17]
[49]?
[29]??+
[51]++++?
[22]??
[37]+?++
[42]+
[54]++++
[21]???
[26]++?
[50]???
[28]??++?
[44]???
[56]+?
[45]??
[61]??++
[62]
[36]??
[63]
[52]++
[19]
[46]??+?
[58]++++
[53] ??
[33]?+
[57]?
[27]?
[18]?
[47]++++

−: low risk, +: high risk, and ?: unknown risk.