Pentraxin 3 as a Prognostic Biomarker in Patients with Systemic Inflammation or Infection

Table 1

Quality evaluation of the included studies using the Standard for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy (STARD) checklist [16, 17].

Item^a	Title/abstract/Key words	Introduction	Methods											Results											Discussion	Totle
			Participants				Test methods					Statistical methods		Participants			Test results				Estimates
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	25
Muller et al., 2001 [15]	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	17
Mauri et al., 2008 [18]	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	20
Sprong et al., 2009 [19]	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	1	1	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	15
Mauri et al., 2010 [20]	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	17
de Kruif et al., 2010; [21]	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	1	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	18
Huttunen et al., 2011 [22]	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	19
Vänskä et al., 2011 [23]	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	16
Bastrup-Birk et al.,; 2013 [24]	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	17
Uusitalo-Seppälä et al., 2013 [25]	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	19
Lin et al., 2013 [26]	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	19
Kao et al., 2013 [27]	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	19

For each item, results are derived from consensus among all reviewers as the number of items from the checklist present in the original article.