Table 3
PICO 1 GRADE evidence table
| Certainty assessment | Certainty | |||||
| Number of studies | Study design | Risk of bias | Inconsistency | Indirectness | Imprecision | |
| Increased identification of IPV victims—critical outcome | ||||||
| 7 | Observational | Serious* | Not serious | Not serious | Serious† |  Low |
| Identification of IPV victims earlier than if there was no screening—critical outcome | ||||||
| 0 | ||||||
*Most data from single centers.
†Relatively small sample size.
GRADE, Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluations; IPV, intimate partner violence; PICO, population, intervention, control, and outcomes.