Review Article

Diagnostic and Predictive Value of Using RGD PET/CT in Patients with Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Table 5

The Newcastle-Ottawa Scale was used to assess the quality of the studies for prediction.

SelectionComparabilityOutcome Quality score
StudyRepresentativeness of the exposed cohortSelection of the nonexposed cohortAscertainment of exposureDemonstration that outcome of interest was not present at start of studyComparability of cohorts on the basis of the design or analysisAssessment of outcomeWas follow-up long enough for outcomes to occurAdequacy of follow-up of cohorts

Nadia Withofs et al8

Hui Zhang et al7

Xiaohui Luan et al7

means the score in the term.