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Table 1 Quality assessment for all of the included studies

From: The relationships between bariatric surgery and sexual function: current evidence based medicine

Included studies

1. A clearly stated aim

2. Inclusion of consecutive patients

3. Prospective collection of data

4. Endpoints appropriate to the aim of the study

5. Unbiased assessment of the study endpoint

6. Follow-up period to the aim of the study

7. Loss to follow up less than 5%

8. Prospective calculation of the study size

Total

Sarwer et al. [10]

2

2

1

2

1

2

2

1

13

Reis et al. [24]

2

2

2

2

1

2

2

1

14

Ranasinghe et al. [25]

2

2

2

2

2

1

2

1

14

Mora et al. [26]

2

1

2

2

2

2

2

1

14

Li et al. [27]

2

2

1

2

1

2

2

1

13

Groutz et al. [28]

2

1

2

2

2

1

2

1

13

Efthymious et al. [14]

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

1

15

Aleid et al. [29]

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

1

15

ARAÚJO et al. [30]

2

1

1

2

2

2

2

1

13

Dallal et al. [31]

2

2

2

2

1

2

2

2

15

Goitein et al. [32]

2

1

2

2

1

2

2

1

13

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