Provision of Endodontic Treatment in Dentistry amid COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Clinical Recommendations

Table 2

Quality assessment form for multiple systematic reviews (AMSTAR).

	Silva et al. (2020)	Azim et al. (2020)	Banakar et al. (2020)	Abramovitz et al. (2020)
1. Was a priori design provided?	Y	Y	Y	Y
2. Were there duplicate study selection and data extraction?	N	N	Y	N
3. Was a comprehensive literature search performed?	Y	Y	Y	N
4. Was the status of publication (i.e., grey literature) used as an inclusion criterion?	Y	Y	Y	N
5. Was a list of studies (included and excluded) provided?	N	Y	Y	N
6. Were the characteristics of the included studies provided?	N	Y	Y	N
7. Was the scientific quality of the included studies assessed and documented?	N	N	N	Y
8. Was the scientific quality of the included studies used appropriately in formulating conclusions?	N	N	Y	Y
9. Were the methods used to combine the findings of studies appropriate?	Y	Y	Y	Y
10. Was the likelihood of publication bias assessed?	Y	N	N	N
11. Was the conflict of interest included?	N	Y	Y	Y

Y: yes; N: no; CA: cannot answer; NA: not applicable.