Author, year [ref] | Main outcome | Study design | Risk of bias | Indirectness | Imprecision a | Overall quality |
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Bender JS, 1996 [49] | Etiology/outcome | Prospective (0.5), observational (2) | AF diagnosis unclear (−1) | Mortality not evaluated (−0.5) |  | Very low (1) |
Seguin P, 2004 [50] | Etiology/outcome | Prospective (0.5), observational (2) | Â | Â | Â | Low (2.5) |
Seguin P, 2006 [51] | Etiology/outcome | Prospective (0.5), observational (2) |  | Only trauma patients (−0.5) |  | Low (2) |
Seguin P, 2006 [51] | Treatment | Prospective (0.5), observational (2) |  | Absence of definition for conversion time (−1) | N = 16 (−1) | Very low (0.5) |
Arora S, 2007 [52] | Etiology/outcome | Prospective (0.5), observational (2) |  |  | N = 61 (−1) | Very low (1.5) |
Christian SA, 2008 [26] | Etiology/outcome | Observational (2) | Retrospective diagnosis of AF (−1) | Only septic patients (−0.5) |  | Very low (0.5) |
Meierhenrich R, 2010 [53] | Etiology/outcome | Prospective (0.5), observational (2) | Â | Â | Â | Low (2.5) |
Meierhenrich R, 2010 [53] | Treatment | Prospective (0.5), observational (2) |  | Unknown efficacy of each treatment (−1) | N = 49 (−1) | Very low (0.5) |
Walkey AJ, 2011 [54] | Etiology/outcome | Observational (2) | Retrospective diagnosis of AF (−1) | Only septic patients (−0.5) | N = 49,082 (+2) | Low (2.5) |
Kanji S, 2012 [55] | Etiology/outcome | Observational (2) | Retrospective diagnosis of AF (−1) |  | N = 2,895 (+1) | Low (3) |
Kanji S, 2012 [55] | Treatment | Observational (2) | Retrospective diagnosis of AF (−1) | Unknown efficacy of each treatment (−1) |  | Very low (0) |
Tongyaoo S, 2013 [56] | Etiology/outcome | Prospective (0.5), observational (2) | Â | Â | Â | Low (2.5) |
Makrygiannis SS, 2014 [57] | Etiology/outcome | Prospective (0.5), observational (2) |  | Mortality not evaluated (−0.5) |  | Low (2) |
Balser JR, 1998 [60] | Treatment | Randomized (4) | Open label (−0.5), Allocation concealment unclear (−0.5) | Mortality not evaluated (−0.5) | N = 64 (−1) | Very low (1.5) |
Sleeswijk ME, 2008 [61] | Treatment | Prospective (0.5), observational (2) |  | Mortality not evaluated (−0.5) | N = 29 (−1) | Very low (1) |