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. 2020 Jan 27;20(1):3–10. doi: 10.4103/jips.jips_375_19

Table 2.

Quality assessment of the prospective and retrospective nonrandomized studies using Newcastle–Ottawa scale

Study (year) Selection Comparability Outcome
Kim et al. (2014)[19] *** * ***
Manoj et al. (2018)[20] *** ** ***
Shetty et al. (2018)[21] *** ** ***
Yang et al. (2014)[22] *** * ***
Chen et al. (2016)[23] *** * ***
Özveri Koyuncu et al. (2019)[24] *** ** ***
Pirpir et al. (2017)[25] *** ** ***
Sohn et al.(2017)[26] *** * ***

*,**,***is the quality assessment score according to Newcastle-Ottawa Scale