Review Article
Low-Frequency Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Stroke-Induced Upper Limb Motor Deficit: A Meta-Analysis
Table 2
Quality appraisal of the selected articles.
| Study | Blind process | Description of baseline data | Dropout | Point estimate and variability | Overall quality appraisal score |
| Takeuchi et al. [19] | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | Fregni et al. [26] | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | Liepert et al. [24] | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | Takeuchi et al. [18] | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | Dafotakis et al. [20] | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | Nowak et al. [27] | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | Khedr et al. [10] | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | Emara et al. [8] | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | Theilig et al. [15] | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | Takeuchi et al. [17] | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | Conforto et al. [21] | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | Seniow et al. [30] | 2 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 2 | Sasaki et al. [9] | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Higgins et al. [22] | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | Sung et al. [28] | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | Wang et al. [32] | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | Rose et al. [23] | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | Galvão et al. [31] | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | Ludemann-Podubecka et al. [29] | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | Zheng et al. [33] | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | Matsuura et al. [25] | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | Du et al. [34] | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
|
|
In the case of any dropout, the total score will be subtracted by 1.
|