Table 1 A brief description of the relevant reporting guidelines and risk-of-bias tools
Tool | Description |
|---|---|
ARRIVE [14] | A 20-item checklist describing the information that all publications reporting animal research should include to correctly interpret the results |
Cochrane’s [12] | The RoB 2 tool from the Cochrane collaboration provides a framework for assessing the risk of bias in a single result from a randomised clinical trial |
CONSORT [15] | A checklist and suggested flow diagram that authors can use for reporting randomised clinical trials, created to aid critical appraisal and interpretation of the results |
SYRCLE’s [13] | RoB tool for animal intervention studies, adjusted from the Cochrane tool for animal studies. Signalling questions were added to facilitate scoring |