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Table 1 Characteristics of included studies

From: Characteristics of patients with schizophrenia switching from oral antipsychotics to once-monthly paliperidone palmitate (PP1M): a systematic review

Study

Country

Study design

Sample size

Outcomes

Other information

Quality assessment by RoB2c

Quality assessment by NOSd

Quality assessment by NIHe

Quality assessment by QUIPSf

Bozzatello 2019 [34]

Italy

Randomized controlled trial

33

CGI-S, PSP

ACTRN12618001113246

High

NA

NA

NA

Kim 2021 [6]

Korea

Observational study

1,166

CGI-S, PSP

Post marketing surveillance data

NA

NA

NA

High

Li 2016 [37, 38, 47, 49]

Asia

Pre-post trial

212

PANSS, CGI-S, PSP

NCT01527305

NA

NA

Good

NA

Li 2018 [24]

China

Pre-post trial (Multivariate analysis)

610

PANSS, CGI-S, PSP

NCT01685931 post hoc analysis during acute treatment phase

NA

NA

NA

Low

Magliocco 2020 [40]

Italy

Observational study

12

PANSS, PSP

Real-word study

NA

8

NA

NA

Patel 2020 [41]

USA

Observational study

177

Hospitalization rate

Real-word analysis

NA

NA

Fair

NA

Peitl 2022 [42]

Croatia

Observational study

112

CGI-S

Real-word study

NA

NA

Fair

NA

Schreiner 2014 [35, 36, 43, 44]

21 countriesa

Pre-post trial

593

PANSS, CGI-S, PSP

NCT01281527 subset of nonacute patients

NA

NA

Fair

NA

Si 2016 [45]

China

Pre-post trial

608

PANSS, CGI-S, PSP

NCT01685931 acute treatment phase

NA

NA

Fair

NA

Sliwa 2011 [29]

USA, Europe, and Asia

Post hoc RCT

106

PANSS, CGI-S, PSP

NCT00590577 post hoc analysis

Low

NA

NA

NA

Zhang 2015 [39, 46, 48, 49]

Asia–Pacificb

Pre-post trial

521

PANSS, CGI-S, PSP Hospitalization rate

NCT01051531

NA

NA

Fair

NA

  1. Abbreviations: CGI-S Clinical global impression-severity, NA Not applicable, NIH National Institutes of Health, NOS Newcastle-Ottawa Scale, PANSS Positive and negative syndrome scale, PSP Personal and social performance, RCT Randomised controlled trial, RoB2 Risk of bias tool 2
  2. a21 countries included Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom
  3. b87.2% patients from Asian countries and 12.8% from Australia and New Zealand
  4. cQuality assessment results of RCTs using RoB2. Overall quality is rated as low, high, or unclear. ‘NA’ in this column means the study is not an RCT and is not applicable to be assessed using RoB2
  5. dQuality assessment results of non-randomised trials and cohort studies using NOS. The maximum score is 9. Higher score indicates better quality. ‘NA’ in this column means the study is not a cohort study and thus is not applicable to be assessed using NOS
  6. eQuality assessment results of before and after trials using NIH. Quality was rated as poor (0-4 out of 12 questions), fair (5-8 out of 12 questions), or good (9-12 out of 12 questions). ‘NA’ in this column means the study is not a before and after study and thus is not applicable to be assessed using NIH
  7. fQuality assessment results of prognostic studies using QUIPS. ‘NA’ in this column means the study is not a prognostic study and thus is not applicable to be assessed using QUIPS