Table 3.
The US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Checklist for Quality Assessment of Cross‐sectional Studies
| Author, Year | Define the Source of Information (Survey, Record Review) | List Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria for Exposed and Unexposed Participants (Cases and Controls) or Refer to Previous Publications | Indicate Time Period Used for Identifying Patients | Indicate Whether or Not Participants Were Consecutive If Not Population‐Based | Indicate Whether Evaluators of Subjective Components of Study Were Masked to Other Aspects of the Status of the Participants | Describe any Assessments Undertaken for Quality Assurance Purposes (eg, Test/Retest of Primary Outcome Measurements) | Explain Any Patient Exclusions From Analysis | Describe How Confounding was Assessed and/or Controled | If Applicable, Explain How Missing Data Were Handled in the Analysis | Summarize Patient Response Rates and Completeness of Data Collection | Clarify What Follow‐up, If Any, was Expected and the Percentage of Patients for Which Incomplete Data or Follow‐up was Obtained |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tanriverdi,29 2006 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unclear |
| Solh,30 2007 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unclear | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Chung,31 2007 | Yes | Yes | Unclear | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unclear | No |
| Noda,40 2008 | Yes | Yes | Unclear | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unclear | No |
| Kapsimalis,33 2008 | Yes | Yes | Unclear | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unclear | No |
| Constantinidis,41 2008 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Jelic,32 2008 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unclear | Unclear |
| Jelic,342009 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unclear |
| Bayram,35 2009 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Chung,36 2010 | Yes | Yes | Unclear | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unclear | No |
| Drager,37 2010 | Yes | Yes | Unclear | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Panoutsopoulos,38 2012 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Guven,18 2012 | Yes | Yes | Unclear | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unclear | No |
| Bruno,39 2013 | Yes | Yes | Unclear | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Jones,42 2013 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Ciccone,45 2014 | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unclear | No |
| Korkmaz,43 2015 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Andaku,44 2015 | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unclear | No |