Review Article

The Value of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in the Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Table 2

Quality assessment of studies enrolled in UC.

AuthorYearRepresentativeness of the exposed cohortSelection of the nonexposed cohortAscertainment of exposureNo demonstration of interesting outcome at start of studyControl for important factor or additional factorAssessment of outcomeEnough follow-up of outcomeAdequacy of follow up of cohortsTotal quality scores

Angelberger2013101111106
Kahn2013101110004
Kunde2013101121006
Patrizia2013101111117
Cui2015101121118
Damman2015101111005
Moayyedi2015111101117
Rossen2015111111118
Suskind2015101111005
Laszlo2016101111117
Nishida2016101121017
Oprita2016101111106
Zhang2016101111117
Wei2016111111118
Ishikawa2017111121007
Mizuno2017101111117
Vinita2017101101116
Paramsothy2017111111118

Total score, 9; ≤4, poor quality; >4, good quality.