Improved Overall Survival of Colorectal Cancer under Multidisciplinary Team: A Meta-Analysis

Table 1

Characteristics of the studies included in the meta-analysis.

Author	Year published	Country	Study design	Study date	Sample size		Gender (male/female)		Tumor staging		NOS
					MDT	Non-MDT	MDT	Non-MDT	MDT	Non-MDT
van der Vlies	2020	The Netherlands	Cohort	2015-2018	127	306	65/62	191/115	I/II/III/IV	I/II/III/IV	8
Li	2020	China	Retrospective	2014-2018	46	83	32/14	54/29	IV	IV	7
Lin	2018	China	Retrospective	2006-2009	326	325	155/171	181/144	I/II/III/IV	I/II/III/IV	8
Hsu	2016	China	Cohort	2005-2008	3515	22251	1978/1537	12609/9642	I/II/III/IV	I/II/III/IV	8
Ye	2012	China	Cohort	1999-2006	298	297	166/132	180/117	I/II/III/IV	I/II/III/IV	8
Chien	2018	China	Retrospective	2007-2017	75	86	42/33	43/43	IV	IV	7
Lan	2016	China	Retrospective	2001-2010	439	636	261/178	429/207	IV	IV	8
Rogers	2017	Australia	Retrospective	2009-2012	363	257	227/136	140/117	I/II/III/IV	I/II/III/IV	7
Wille	2013	Denmark	Cohort	2001-2006	344	467	193/151	245/222	I/II/III/IV	I/II/III/IV	8
Du	2011	China	Retrospective	2001-2009	101	162	57/44	88/74	I/II/III/IV	I/II/III/IV	7
Macdermid	2009	The United Kingdom	Cohort	1997-2005	134	176	62/72	96/80	II/III/IV	II/III/IV	7

Abbreviations: MDT: multidisciplinary team; NOS: Newcastle-Ottawa Scale.