Critical evaluation of the Newcastle-Ottawa scale for the assessment of the quality of nonrandomized studies in meta-analyses

By A. Stang. European Journal of Epidemiology, 2010

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Are healthcare workers’ intentions to vaccinate related to their knowledge, beliefs and attitudes? a systematic review (2013, methodology): “The tools used to determine the risk of bias and the quality of the studies included were based on the Newcastle-Ottawa scales, which are widely used for observational studies [37].”
Healthy dietary indices and risk of depressive outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies (2018, methodology): “Quality and risk of bias assessment We adapted the Newcastle-Ottawa checklist [23] to assess whether cohorts were representative of the wider population (as opposed to a selected occupational group, for instance), if diet was ascertained by means of a validated dietary assessment tool (e.”
Obesity and Risk of Colorectal Cancer: A Systematic Review of Prospective Studies (2013, methodology): “The study quality was assessed using the 9-star Newcastle-Ottawa Scale [53].”
Does comorbidity increase the risk of patients with COVID-19: evidence from meta-analysis (2020, methodology): “The Newcastle-Ottawa scale (NOS) was adopted to evaluate the process in terms of queue selection, comparability of queues, and evaluation of results [13].”
Are Metabolically Healthy Overweight and Obesity Benign Conditions? (2013, background): “4) Ogorodnikova et al, 2011 (53) 4036 (23) 2070 (11.”
The methodological quality assessment tools for preclinical and clinical studies, systematic review and meta‐analysis, and clinical practice guideline: a systematic review (2015, methodology): “Hence, we believe the NOS is applicable to observational study (including case-control and cohort studies) (30, 31).”
Prevalence of Depression, Depressive Symptoms, and Suicidal Ideation Among Medical Students: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. (2016, neutral): “7 (15-27) 243 (41) HRSRS ≥25 Angkurawaranon et al,41 2016 Thailand 2013 2-6 1014 Mean (SD): 20.”
Telerehabilitation: Review of the State-of-the-Art and Areas of Application (2017, methodology): “We evaluated the relevant articles with the standard criteria of the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale for assessing the quality of nonrandomized studies in meta-analyses [16].”
Food groups and risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies (2017, background): “However, Stang [14] commented that the Newcastle–Ottawa Scale includes quality items that are not valid (e.g., the ‘‘representativeness of the exposed cohort’’ item), and concluded that this score appeared to be unacceptable for the quality ranking of 364 L. Schwingshackl et al. case–control and coh”
Fatigue and cognitive impairment in Post-COVID-19 Syndrome: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2021, neutral): “Studies wherein the design was unclear were assessed according to the prospective cohort NOS.”