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Fig. 1 | Reproductive Health

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From: Graphical displays for effective reporting of evidence quality tables in research syntheses

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Effect of various treatments on pelvic pain: Graphic overview of evidence quality. Each graph represents the quality domains shown on concentric spokes. Starting from 12 o’clock and moving clockwise these are design, risk of bias, inconsistency of results, indirectness of participants, and outcomes and effect size [12]. For each of the spokes, the length represents the magnitude of quality adapting the scoring system used for Clinical Evidence reviews (http://clinicalevidence.bmj.com/x/set/static/ebm/learn/665072.html). The block shapes, formed by joining the lengths of the spokes, colour coded to represent the overall quality of evidence as follows: Green = high quality evidence; yellow = moderate quality; and red = low or very low quality. See main text of our Clinical Evidence review [14] for details. NSAIDs = non steroidal anti inflammatory drugs TENS = transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation LUNA = laparoscopic uterine nerve ablation. * The lack of a clinically meaningful effect of LUNA for dysmenorrhoea has been confirmed through an individual patient data meta-analysis [6]

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