Review Article

Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplantation for Liver Cell Failure: A New Direction and Option

Table 2

Quality assessment of studies enrolled in liver cell failure.

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

Pan et al.2008101121118
Khan et al.2008101110004
Peng et al.2011111120017
Amer et al.2011111120118
Shi et al.2012111121119
Park et al.2013101110116
Wan et al.2013111110005
Li et al.2016111111118
Lin et al.2017101121118

Note: total score, 9; ≤4, poor quality; >4, good quality.