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Table 2 Quality assessment of containing studies using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale

From: Prognostic value of pretreatment platelet counts in lung cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Study

Selection

Comparability

Outcome

Total score

Pedersen LM

4

1

3

8

Cox G

4

2

2

8

Suzuki M

4

0

2

6

Swinson DE

4

0

2

6

Bremnes RM

4

0

2

6

Unsal E

4

1

2

7

Aoe K

4

0

2

6

Mandrekar SJ

4

1

2

7

Prévost S

4

0

2

6

Altiay G

4

0

2

6

Tomita M

4

2

2

8

Qiu MZ

4

2

2

6

Gonzalez Barcala FJ

4

2

2

8

Gonzalez Barcala FJ

4

2

2

8

Luo J

4

1

2

7

Holgersson G

4

1

2

7

Yu D

4

2

2

8

Liu HB

4

0

2

6

Maráz A

4

0

2

6

Du G

4

1

2

7

Kim KH

4

2

1

7

Kim M

4

2

2

8

Zhang T

4

0

3

7

Ji Y

4

1

2

7

Zhu JF

4

2

2

8

Wu G

4

0

2

6

Zhang H

4

1

2

7

Zhang W

4

0

3

7

Hong X

4

0

2

6

Gotfrit J

4

0

2

6

Boddu P

4

1

2

7

Gao L

4

2

3

9

Liu W

4

2

2

8

Wang YQ

4

1

2

7

Lee S

4

0

2

6

Holgersson G

4

0

2

6

Holgersson G

4

0

2

6

Cui MM

4

0

3

7

Ohuchi M

4

0

2

6

Li Y

4

2

1

7