Table 1.
Quality assessment of included articles
| Author | Reference | Year | Definition of population |
Representativeness of the sample |
Ascertainment of AST method |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Is the study population clearly described? | Are the criteria (case definition) for enrolment in the study clearly stated? | Is the sampling of the study population clearly described? | Does the study describe the method for susceptibility testing used? | Did the study specify the breakpoint standard used? | Did the study report on internal quality control measures? | |||
| Kothari | 10 | 2008 | + | + | − | + | + | + |
| Kim | 11 | 2008 | + | + | + | + | + | − |
| Ho | 12 | 2010 | + | + | + | + | + | + |
| Lee SJ | 13 | 2011 | + | + | + | + | + | − |
| Lu PL | 14 | 2012 | + | − | − | + | + | + |
| Lee DS | 15 | 2013 | + | + | + | + | + | − |
| Chen | 16 | 2013 | + | + | + | + | + | − |
| Mitchell | 17 | 2014 | + | − | − | + | + | + |
| Niranjan | 18 | 2014 | + | + | − | + | + | − |
| Kapur | 19 | 2014 | + | + | + | + | + | − |
| Hossain | 20 | 2014 | + | − | − | + | + | − |
| Senadheera | 21 | 2016 | + | + | + | + | + | − |
| Fasugba | 22 | 2016 | + | + | + | + | + | + |
| Amornchai charoensuk | 23 | 2016 | + | + | + | − | − | − |
| Jean | 24 | 2016 | + | + | − | + | + | + |
| Adeep | 25 | 2016 | + | + | + | + | + | + |
| Mishra | 26 | 2016 | + | + | − | + | + | − |
| Pruetpongpun | 27 | 2017 | + | + | + | + | + | − |
| Fernando | 28 | 2017 | + | + | − | + | + | − |
| Sugianli | 29 | 2017 | + | + | + | + | + | + |
| Veeraraghavan | 30 | 2018 | + | − | − | + | + | + |
| Choe HS | 31 | 2018 | + | − | + | − | + | − |
| Lee H | 32 | 2018 | + | + | − | + | + | − |
| Ganesh | 33 | 2019 | + | + | + | + | + | + |
Abbreviations: (+), yes; (−), no.