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Table 3 Quality assessment for case-controlled studies

From: Pretreatment with or without GnRH-agonist before frozen–thawed embryo transfer in patients with PCOS: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Study

year

Study design

Quality assessment

Zhang Jianmei et al

2020

Case-controlled

1:adequate;2:adequate;3:adequate;4:adequate;5:adequate

Zhang Fan

2020

Case-controlled

1:adequate;2:adequate;3:adequate;4:adequate;5:adequate

Bai Jingying et al

2020

Case-controlled

1:adequate;2:adequate;3:adequate;4:adequate;5:adequate

Zhu Aizhen et al

2020

Case-controlled

1:adequate;2:adequate;3:adequate;4:adequate;5:adequate

Sun Xiaoxiao et al

2019

Case-controlled

1:adequate;2:adequate;3:adequate;4:adequate;5:adequate

Li Jing et al

2019

Case-controlled

1:adequate;2:adequate;3:adequate;4:adequate;5:adequate

Ji Xiaoyuan et al

2019

Case-controlled

1:adequate;2:adequate;3:adequate;4:adequate;5:adequate

Di XIE et al

2018

Case-controlled

1:adequate;2:adequate;3:adequate;4:adequate;5:adequate

Hsiao-Wen Tsai et al

2017

Case-controlled

1:adequate;2:adequate;3:adequate;4:adequate;5:adequate

Zhang Jingshun et al

2017

Case-controlled

1:adequate;2:adequate;3:adequate;4:adequate;5:adequate

Wang Xiaoyan et al

2015

Case-controlled

1:adequate;2:adequate;3:adequate;4:adequate;5:adequate

Jiang Chenglong et al

2015

Case-controlled

1:adequate;2:adequate;3:adequate;4:adequate;5:adequate

Jie Di et al

2014

Case-controlled

1:adequate;2:adequate;3:adequate;4:adequate;5:adequate

  1. Quality assessment codes: 1 = including laboratory design and methods; 2 = definition of PCOS; 3 = assessment and validation of cases and controls; 4 = eliminating confounding factors for participants; 5 = Equal assessment for confounding factors for cases and controls