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Table 2 General experimental design quality

From: The number of stimuli required to reliably assess corticomotor excitability and primary motor cortical representations using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS): a systematic review and meta-analysis

Study

Item 1

Item 2

Item 3

Item 4

Item 5

Item 6

Item 7

Item 8

Item 9

Item 10

Item 11

Total/11

Bastani & Jaberzadeh [22]

Y

N

Y

Y

N

N

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

8

Christie et al. [23]

Y

N

Y

Y

N

N

N

Y

Y

N

Y

6

Doeltgen et al. [25]

N

N

Y

Y

N

N

N

Y

Y

N

Y

5

Lewis et al. [24]

Y

N

Y

Y

N

N

N

Y

Y

N

Y

6

  1. Key: Y yes, N no. Items: 1 clearly defined question, 2 consecutive or random sampling, 3 avoided inappropriate exclusions, 4 sample representative of target population, 5 raters blinded to additional cues that were not part of the test, 6 assessor blinding during analyses, 7 appropriate interval between tests, 8 all participants received all tests, 9 successive tests performed under same conditions, 10 all participants included in analyses, 11 appropriate statistical analyses