Critical evaluation of the Newcastle-Ottawa scale for the assessment of the quality of nonrandomized studies in meta-analyses.
Stang
Andreas
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Institut für Klinische Epidemiologie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Saale, Germany. andreas.stang@medizin.uni-halle.de
D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015331:Cohort Studies; D006801:Humans; D015201:Meta-Analysis as Topic; D054928:Validation Studies as Topic