Table 4. New Castle - Ottawa scale for cross-sectional studies.
| New Castle - Ottawa Scale | Schwaederle et al., 2022 [38] |
| SELECTION | |
| Representativeness of cases | 1 |
| Sample size | 0 |
| Non-response rate | 1 |
| Ascertainment of screening/surveillance tool | 2 |
| COMPARIBILITY | 0 |
| OUTCOME | |
| Assessment of outcome | 2 |
| Statistical test | 1 |
| ASSIGNED SCORE | 7/9 |