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Table 1 Assessment of methodological quality

From: The value of focused assessment with sonography in trauma examination for the need for operative intervention in blunt torso trauma: a rebuttal to “emergency ultrasound-based algorithms for diagnosing blunt abdominal trauma (review)”, from the Cochrane Collaboration

Study	Year	Meth qual score
Melniker [3]	2006	13
Ma [7]	2001	12
Arrillaga [4]	1999	11
Akgur [8]	1997	9
McElveen [9]	1997	9
Healey [10]	1996	9
Boulanger [5]	1995	11
Goletti [11]	1994	9
Lui [12]	1993	8
Rozycki [13]	1993	8
Gruessner [14]	1989	8

Same as “Assessment of methodological quality” (0–18 score) from 9 elements listed above

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