Research Article
A Meta-Analysis of Incidence of Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection with Midline Catheters and Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters
Table 2
Quality evaluation result of included literature.
| | Study, year | Reporting | External validity | Bias | Confounding | Power | Total score | Grade |
| | Sargent, 1997 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 13 | Poor | | Moureau, 2002 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 19 | Moderate | | Barr, 2012 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 20 | Good | | Benali, 2013 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 20 | Good | | Caparas, 2014 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 23 | Good | | Sharp, 2014 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 22 | Good | | Lisova, 2015 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 16 | Moderate | | Xu, 2016 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 23 | Good | | Snooks, 2019 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 15 | Moderate | | Tao, 2019 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 20 | Good | | Seo, 2020 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 20 | Good |
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