Research Article

Drug-Coated versus Uncoated Balloon for Side Branch Protection in Coronary Bifurcation Lesions Treated with Provisional Stenting Using Drug-Eluting Stents: A Meta-analysis

Table 3

Quality evaluation of the included NRCT.

StudyRepresentativeness of the exposed cohortSelection of the nonexposed cohortAscertainment of exposureDemonstration that outcome of interest was not present at start of studyComparability - age and genderComparability - other factorsAssessment of outcomeWas follow-up long enough for outcomes to occurAdequacy of follow-up of cohortsTotal

Herrador 20130111111118
Zhang 20190111111017
Li 20211111111119