Review Article
Significance of Chromosome 9p Status in Renal Cell Carcinoma: A Systematic Review and Quality of the Reported Studies
Table 5
Assessment of bias and applicability of the included observational cohort studies.
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Study | Risk of bias | Applicability concerns | Patients selection | Definition of threshold | Validation test | Flow and clinical followup | Cohort selection | Technique interpretation and threshold | Target condition | Sample size and tissue samples used |
| Antonelli et al., 2010 [31] | High | Low | High | Low | Low | Low | Low | High | Brunelli et al., 2008 [32] | High | Low | High | Low | Low | Low | Low | High | Gunawan et al., 2003 [33] | High | Low | High | High | Low | Low | Low | High | Klatte et al., 2009 [34] | High | Low | High | High | Low | Low | Low | High |
La Rochelle et al., 2010 [29] | Low | Low | High | Low | Low | Low | Low | High | Li et al., 2011 [35] | High | Low | Low | High | Low | Low | Low | High | Moch et al., 1996 [36] | High | Low | High | High | Low | Low | low | High | Presti et al., 2002 [37] | High | Low | High | Low | Low | Low | Low | High | Sanjmyatav et al., 2011 [38] | High | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | High | Schraml et al., 2000 [40] | Low | Low | High | High | Low | Low | Low | High | Schraml et al., 2001 [39] | Low | Low | High | High | Low | Low | Low | High |
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