Supplementary Table 3.
Modified Newcastle-Ottawa scale
| First author, year | Selection |
Outcome |
Score | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | ||
| Yokota T, 1994 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Yoshikane H, 1999 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Bergmann U, 2003 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Su MY, 2005 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Uraoka T, 2005 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Katsinelos P, 2006 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Katsinelos P, 2008 | - | - | - | - | - | RCT |
| Huang Y, 2009 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Serrano M, 2012 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Yoshida N, 2012 | - | - | - | - | - | RCT |
| Pohl H, 2013 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| La Nauze R, 2014 | - | - | - | - | - | RCT |
| Choksi N, 2015 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Kashani A, 2015 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Muniraj T, 2015 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Uedo N, 2015 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Woodward T, 2015 | - | - | - | - | - | RCT |
| Amato A, 2016 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Horiuchi A, 2016 | - | - | - | - | - | RCT |
| Hirose R, 2017 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Piraka C, 2017 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Schenck RJ, 2017 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Tutticci NJ, 2017 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Cadoni S, 2018 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Chaves DM, 2018 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Han SJ, 2018 | - | - | - | - | - | RCT |
| Chien HC, 2019 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Gessl I, 2019 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Kumar V, 2019 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Murakami T, 2019 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Papastergiou V, 2019 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Rodríguez-Sánchez J, 2019 | - | - | - | - | - | RCT |
| Van Overbeke L, 2019 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Yamashina T, 2019 | - | - | - | - | - | RCT |
| Ket SN, 2020 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Yen AW, 2020 | - | - | - | - | - | RCT |
Selection variables: 1=representativeness of cohort; 2=assignment of exposure; 3=outcome not present at start. Outcome variables: 1=assignment of outcome; 2=adequate follow-up