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Table 2 GRADEpro level of quality evidences assessment

From: Does short message service improve focused antenatal care visit and skilled birth attendance? A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials

Certainty assessment

№ of patients

Effect

Certainty

№ of studies

Study design

Risk of bias

Inconsistency

Indirectness

Imprecision

Other considerations

phone text messaging

no interventions

Relative (95% CI)

Absolute (95% CI)

FANC visit (assessed with: OR)

 3

Randomized trials

not serious

serious

not serious

not serious

none

866/1702 (50.9%)

598/1643 (36.4%)

OR --(1.41 to 5.35)

-- per 1000 (from 83 more to 390 more)

MODERATE

Skilled birth Attendance(assessed with: OR)

 3

Randomized trials

not serious

serious

not serious

not serious

none

947/1675 (56.5%)

731/1607 (45.5%)

OR -- (0.80 to 2.78)

-- per 1000 (from 55 fewer to 244 more)

MODERATE

  1. CI Confidence interval; OR Odds ratio