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Table2 Risk of bias assessment of retrospective cohort trial

From: Staples versus sutures for skin closure in hip arthroplasty: a meta-analysis and systematic review

Risk of bias assessment

Lu et al. (2018)

Selection

3

Comparability

2

Outcome/exposure

2

Total score

7

  1. The Newcastle–Ottawa scale (NOS) was used to assess the quality of nonrandomized studies with its design, content and ease of use directed to the task of incorporating the quality assessments in the interpretation of meta-analytic results