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.
| Author | Year | Representativeness of the exposed cohort | Selection of the nonexposed cohort | Ascertainment of exposure | No demonstration of interesting outcome at start of study | Control for important factor or additional factor | Assessment of outcome | Enough follow-up of outcome | Adequacy of follow-up of cohorts | Total quality scores |
| Pan et al. | 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | Khan et al. | 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | Peng et al. | 2011 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | Amer et al. | 2011 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | Shi et al. | 2012 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | Park et al. | 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | Wan et al. | 2013 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | Li et al. | 2016 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | Lin et al. | 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
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Note: total score, 9; ≤4, poor quality; >4, good quality.
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