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. 2010 May 25;4:493–517. doi: 10.2147/opth.s8980

Table 3.

Extracted data

Participant characteristics Total number
Gender
Age
Country
Type of diabetic macular edema
Diagnostic criteria
Baseline visual acuity or changed in BCVA
Visual fields
Fluorescein angiography
OCT-determined thickness of diabetic macular edema
Patient inclusion and exclusion criteria
Intervention Agent
Dose
Timing of first dose in relation to diagnosis
Delivery route
Frequency and treatment length
Study and methodology Study design
Trial identifiers
Study size
Randomization
Masking, allocation concealment
Duration of each study
Primary outcomes BCVA
Change in visual acuity
OCT
Secondary outcomes Retinal thickness from baseline as measured by OCT5
Anatomical measures:
Presence of edema via direct fundoscopy
Fluorescein angiography leakage
Adverse effects:
Ocular and systemic toxicity
Ocular hypertension
Anterior chamber reaction
Lens opacity progression
Endophthalmitis
Blindness
Additional data Economic data, quality of life data
Treatment compliance and losses to follow-up
Missing data Authors contacted
Data has been entered in Review Manager 5
Fixed effect models used
Data collection Microsoft Excel® spreadsheet

Abbreviations: BCVA, best-corrected visual acuity; OCT, optical coherence tomography.