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Table 2 Newcastle-Ottawa scale for quality assessment

From: Prognostic and clinicopathological value of Beclin-1 expression in hepatocellular carcinoma: a meta-analysis

Study

Selection

Comparability

Outcome

Total

Exposed cohort

Non-exposed cohort

Ascertainment of exposure

Outcome of interest

Control for factor

Assessment of outcome

Follow-up long enough

Adequacy of follow-up

score

Ding [15]

*

*

*

*

**

*

*

*

9

Kang [21]

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

8

Lee [22]

*

*

*

*

**

*

*

 

8

Guo [26]

*

*

*

*

**

*

*

*

9

Qiu [14]

*

*

*

*

**

*

*

*

9

Wu [16]

*

*

*

*

**

*

*

*

9

Osman [23]

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

8

Yang [27]

*

*

*

*

**

*

*

*

9

Al-Shenawy [24]

*

*

*

*

**

*

*

*

9

Zhou [25]

*

*

 

*

*

*

*

 

6

  1. *A study can be awarded a maximum of one star for each numbered item within the selection and outcome categories. A maximum of two stars can be given for comparability. http://www.ohri.ca/programs/clinical_epidemiology/oxford.asp
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