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Figure 2 Quantification of risk of bias assessment enables not only summarising quality appraisal results but also making judgments as to what the future studies should look at. Citation: Tsikopoulos K, Sidiropoulos K, Kitridis D, Hassan A, Drago L, Mavrogenis A, McBride D. Is coating of titanium implants effective at preventing Staphylococcus aureus infections? A meta-analysis of animal model studies. Int Orthop 2020. Copyright© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Springer Nature Publishing Group[5]. The authors have obtained the permission for figure using from the Springer Nature Publishing Group (Supplementary material).