A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis to Assess Patient-Reported Outcomes after Lung Cancer Surgery

Table 3

Summary of study characteristics (cont.).

Study ID	Population number; (V : T)*	Mean age; (V : T)* in years	Male sex %; (V : T)*	Complications; (V : T)*	COI^$
Balduyck et al. [10]	100	CED^$$	CED^$$	NR**	No
Baysungur et al. [11]	(18 : 20)	(63 : 58)	(70% : 80%)	(1 : 1)	No
Brunelli et al.; Italy [12]	156	65	79%	NR**	NR**
Ilonen et al.; Finland [13]	48	63	62%	13	No
Li et al.; China [14]	(27 : 24)	(63 : 66)	(74% : 75%)	NR**	NR**

V: VATS, T: Thoracotomy, ^$COI: conflict of interests, ^$$CED: could not extract data, **NR: not reported.