Standard 9a: a scoring process was described a priori
Eleven studies (42%) met this standard but was unclear in seven studies
(27%). Eight studies (31%) did not meet this standard as they did not
use a scoring process. For those that met the standard, clear evidence
was provided either within a published prospective protocol or COMET
protocol registry entry (n = 7) or authors reported ‘a priori ’
specific to scoring process.