Etiology and Use of the “Hanging Drop” Technique: A Review

Table 2

Risk of bias assessment using MINORS.

	Visser et al. (2006) [18]	Okutomi et al. (1993) [6]
A clearly stated aim	A	A
Inclusion of consecutive patients	A	U
Prospective collection of data	A	A
Endpoints appropriate to the aim of the study	A	A
Unbiased assessment of the study endpoint	I	I
Follow-up period appropriate to the aim of the study	*	*
Loss to follow-up less than 5%	*	*
Prospective calculation of the study size	A	I
Additional criteria for comparative studies
Adequate control group	A
Contemporary groups	A
Baseline equivalence of groups	A
Adequate statistical analyses	A

∗No follow-up indicated. A: adequate; I: inadequate; U: unclear.