Role of remote ischaemic conditioning in fracture healing and orthopaedic surgery—a systematic review and narrative synthesis

Table 2 PEDro score for methodological quality of included clinical RCTs

Authors	Eligibility criteria	Random allocation	Allocation concealment	Baseline characteristics	Subject blinding	Interventionist blinding	Blinded assessments	Completeness of data	Intention to treat	Statistical comparisons	Measures of variability	Total Score
Memtsoudis et al. (2010) [31]	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	5
Oh et al. (2017) [32]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	10
Murphy et al. (2010) [33]	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	5
Sha et al. (2014) [34]	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	5
Memtsoudis et al. (2014) [35]	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	8
Leurcharusmee et al. 2022a [36]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	10
Leurcharusmee et al. 2022b [37]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	10
Arikan et al. (2023) [38]	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	7
Sullivan et al. (2009) [39]	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	4
Koca et al. (2011) [40]	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	9
Orban et al. (2006) [41]	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	6
Lin et al. (2010) [42]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	8
Van et al. (2008) [43]	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	7
Hu et al. (2010) [44]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	10
Oh et al. (2020) [45]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	10
Park et al. (2018) [46]	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	9
Ekeloef et al. (2019) [47]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	8
Ekeloef et al. (2021a) [48]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	8
Ekeloef et al. (2021b) [49]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	8
Wahlstrøm et al. (2021) [50]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	8
Total %	95%	100%	65%	85%	60%	30%	65%	80%	85%	100%	100%

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