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Transparency declaration: The manuscript's guarantor (O.D.) affirms that this manuscript is an honest, accurate, and transparent account of the study being reported; that no important aspects of the study have been omitted; and that any discrepancies from the study as planned (and, if relevant, registered) have been explained.
Funding: The authors received no financial support for the research or the publication of this article.
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Competing interest statement: All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure format http://www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf and declare: no support from any organization for the submitted work; Peter Tugwell recused himself from the entire editorial process. Holger Schunemann is the co-chair of the GRADE working group and reports no financial conflict of interest, Peter Tugwell is the recipient of Canada Research Chair in Health Equity (Tier 1d2016 to 2024) from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Vivian Welch reports grants from World Health Organization, outside the submitted work; no other relationships or activities could have influenced this work.
Contribution: V.W., Peter Tugwell, E.A., P.C., K.P., and H.S. conceived the study. O.D., V.W., Philip Tsang, J.P., and T.P. developed the screening and data extraction forms. O.D., Philip Tsang, M.L., C.M., A.A., and T.B. screened the reviews and extracted data. O.D. conducted data quality check, analyzed the data, and wrote the first draft of the manuscript. V.W., Peter Tugwell, E.A., P.C., K.P., H.S., A.A., M.L., and T.P. suggested revisions to the manuscript. All authors approved the final version of the manuscript.
