Effects of micronutrient fortified milk and cereal food for infants and children: a systematic review

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Table 3 Risk of bias summary table

EN	Author	Year	Adequate sequence generation?	Allocation concealment?	Blinding?	Incomplete outcome data addressed	Are typical outcomers reported? (Selective outcome reporting)
675	Brown	2007	?	?	YES	YES	YES
818	Daly	1996	?	?	?	YES	YES
951	Faber	2005	NO	NO`	YES	NO	YES
1058	Gibson	2011	?	?	YES	NO	YES
153	Gill	1997	?	YES	NO	NO	YES
1051	Lartey	1999	?	YES	NO	YES	YES
1154	Liu	1993	?	?	?	NO	YES
257	Maldonado Lonzano	2007	YES	YES	YES	YES	NO
282	Morley	1999	?	YES	YES	YES	YES
1149	Nesamvuni	2005	NO	NO	YES	YES	YES
297	Oelofse	2003	NO	NO	NO	NO	YES
333	Rivera	2010	?	?	YES	NO	NO
1	Sazawal	2010	YES	YES	YES	NO	YES
1172.2	Schumann	2005	NO	NO	YES	YES	NO
838	Stevens	1998	?	?	YES	NO	NO
403	Villalpando	2006	?	?	YES	YES	NO
404	Virtanen	2001	?	?	YES	NO	NO
797	Walter	1998	NO	YES	YES	NO	YES

The table presents each study by assessed methodological criterion in a cross-tabulation ^a. Studies are sorted for author name.
^a Assessment categories: YES: criterion fulfilled; NO: criterion not fulfilled; “?”: unclear, as no information given.

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