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Table 2 NOS criteria for quality of cohort studies

From: Pentraxin-3 as a predictive marker of mortality in sepsis: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis

Study

Representativeness of the exposed cohort

Selection of the non-exposed cohort

Ascertainment of exposure

Demonstration that the outcome of interest was not present at the start of the study

Comparability of cohorts on the basis of the design or analysis

Assessment of outcome

Was follow-up long enough for outcomes to occur

Adequacy of follow-up of cohorts

Total quality scores

Muller, 2001

6

Wagenaar, 2009

8

Mauri, 2010

8

Huttunen, 2011

9

Bastrup-Birk, 2013

8

Lin, 2013

9

Uusitalo-Seppa¨la¨, 2013

8

Hansen, 2016

9

Jie, 2017

8

Kim, 2017

8

Hu, 2018

8

Hansen, 2020

8

Martin, 2020

6

Song, 2020

8

Vassalli, 2020

8