Review Article

Looking for Responders among Women with Chronic Pelvic Pain Treated with a Comicronized Formulation of Micronized Palmitoylethanolamide and Polydatin

Table 2

Quality score given for each study.

Type of studyAvailability of descriptive dataNumerosity of the seriesPresence and appropriateness of comparator armTotal score of the study

Dell’Anna and De Marzi [29]221-14
Di Francesco and Pizzagallo [22]32-104
Dionisi and Senatori [30]221-14
Giugliano et al. [31]221-14
Indraccolo and Barbieri [20]03-1-11
Murina et al. [32]32-115
Stocco and Schievano [34]22-1-12

No observational study with comparator arm has been found (so the Newcastle-Ottawa scale was not applied). The Giugliano et al. [31] study is a two-arm study; both arms are treated with the m-(PEA/Pol).