Contribution to Authorship
EC: Project design and conception. Prospectively registered and
independently performed aspects of the systematic review and
meta-analysis including title/abstract screening, data extraction, data
analysis, risk of bias assessments, statistical analysis, interpretation
of results and project writeup.
RH: Performed independent title/abstract screening, independent double
data extraction for the recurrence of OASI data and independent risk of
bias assessments.
KA: Performed independent double data extraction for the included
studies.
JM: Contributed substantially to writeup and clinical interpretation of
results.
RK: Instrumental in project design and conception. Performed data
analysis and substantially contributed to project writeup and
interpretation of results.