Effectiveness and safety of surgical interventions for treating adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: a Bayesian meta-analysis

Table 2 Quality assessment of case-controlled studies comparing surgical interventions for treating AIS using Newcastle-Ottawa Scale

Author group		Selection			Comparability		Exposure
	Adequat-e case definitio-n	Representativeness of the cases	Selectio-n of Control-s	Definitio-n of Controls	Comparability of cases and controls	Ascertainm-ent of exposure	Same method of ascertainmen-t	Non Response rate
Dobbs 2006 [26]	1	1	–	1	2	1	1	–
Zhang 2012 [52]	1	1	–	1	2	1	1	–
Zhang 2009 [41]	1	1	–	1	2	1	1	–
Qiu 2011 [42]	1	1	–	1	2	1	1	–
Zhang 2011 [51]	1	1	–	1	2	1	1	–
Kim 2005 [34]	1	1	–	1	1	1	1	–
Bullmann 2013 [46]	1	1	–	1	1	1	1	–
Vedantam 2000 [44]	1	1	–	1	1	1	1	–
Kim 2008 [33]	1	1	–	1	2	1	1	–
Faro 2005 [28]	1	1	–	1	2	1	1	–
Kishan 2007 [35]	1	1	–	1	2	1	1	–
Lenke 2004 [15]	1	1	–	1	2	1	1	–
Verma 2011 [45]	1	1	–	1	2	1	1	–
Zhou 2011 [49]	1	1	–	1	1	1	1	–
Greggi 2010 [31]	1	1	–	1	2	1	1	–
Lonner 2009 [37]	1	1	–	1	2	1	1	–
Newton 2013 [40]	1	1	–	1	1	1	1	–
Suk 2008 [43]	1	1	–	1	1	1	1	–
Graham 2000 [30]	1	1	–	1	1	1	1	–
Miljenko 2006 [29]	1	1	–	1	2	1	1	–
Lenke 1999 [36]	1	1	–	1	1	1	1	–
Wong 2004 [48]	1	1	–	1	2	1	1	1
Muschik 2006 [39]	1	1	–	1	1	1	1	–
Lonner 2006 [38]	1	1	–	1	2	1	1	–
Hee 2007 [32]	1	1	–	1	2	1	1	–
Wang 2008 [47]	1	1	–	1	2	1	1	–
Dong 2015 [27]	1	1	–	1	2	1	1	–
Zhan 2010 [50]	1	1	–	1	2	1	1	–

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