Table 4.
Newcastle Ottawa scale for quality assessment of cross-sectional studies.
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| STUDY ID | SELECTION | COMPARABILITY | OUTCOME | TOTAL | RESULT | |||
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| REPRESENTATIVENESS OF THE SAMPLE | SAMPLE SIZE | NON- RESPONDENTS | Ψ | ASSESSMENT OF OUTCOME | STATISTICAL TEST | |||
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| Studies using Portable or Handheld Echocardiography | ||||||||
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| Otto 2011 | * | - | * | ** | ** | - | 6 | Medium Risk |
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| Beaton 2019 | * | * | - | ** | ** | * | 7 | Low Risk |
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| Nascimento 2021 | * | * | - | ** | ** | * | 7 | Low Risk |
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| Snelgrove 2021 | * | * | - | ** | ** | * | 8 | Low Risk |
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| AlSharqi 2022 | * | - | * | ** | ** | * | 7 | Low Risk |
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| Screening using Standard Echocardiography or nonspecified echocardiographer | ||||||||
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| Selvarani 2014 | - | * | - | * | ** | - | 4 | High Risk |
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| Bacha 2019 | * | * | - | ** | ** | - | 6 | Medium Risk |
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| Gomathi 2019 | - | - | - | - | ** | - | 2 | High Risk |
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| Bozkaya 2020 | * | * | - | ** | ** | * | 7 | Low Risk |
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| Patel 2021 | * | * | - | - | ** | - | 4 | High Risk |
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Ψ Comparability of subjects across studies with enough information provided on study design, analysis, and confounding factors (**); information provided on 2 of the 3 previously mentioned factors (*).