The efficacy and safety of plasma exchange in patients with sepsis and septic shock: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Table 2 Risk of bias assessment of included studies

Study	Industry funding	Random sequence generation	Allocation concealment	Blinding (participants/personnel)	Blinding (outcome assessors)	Incomplete outcome data	Selective reporting	Other bias	Overall assessment
Reeves and colleagues [23]	No	Low	Low	Unclear	Unclear	Low	Low	High^a	High
Busund and colleagues [24]	NR	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Low	Low	High^a	High
Nguyen and colleagues [25]	No	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Low	Low	Unclear	Unclear
Long and colleagues [26]	NR	Unclear	Low	Unclear	Unclear	Low	Low	High^a	High

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