3.3 Study Quality assessment:
Study quality assessment showed the scores ranged between 13 and 18 with
an average score of 15.26. The mean score of study quality assessment
with standard deviation is 1.696±0.55 for all the studies. All the
studies scored high on the clarity of the research question (2.00 ±
0.00), subject representative of the pathological population (2.00 ±
0.00), and the diagnosis method of the COVID-19 (2.00 ± 0.00). In
addition, corticosteroid therapy administered through intranasal, oral
and intravenous routes at different doses. The lowest scoring category
was the employment of a power analysis (0.3 ± 0.72). Sample size
justification via power analysis was conducted by only four studies.
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