Transurethral resection of the prostate versus prostatic artery embolization in the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia: a meta-analysis

Table 2 Quality assessment of the included studies

Study Design		Selection				Comparability	Outcome			Total
Study Design		Representativeness of exposed cohort	Selective of nonexposed Cohort	Ascertainment of exposure	Outcome not present at start	Comparability	Assessment of outcome	Adequate follow-up length	Adequacy of follow-up	Total
Qiu	P, S	^*	^*	^*	^*	^*	^*	^*	^*	8
Ray	R, M	^*	^*	^*	^*	^*	^*	^*	^*	8
		Randomization	Allocation concealment		Blinding			Quality level
Carnevale	RCT	Adequate	Unclear		Unclear			Unclear
Gao	RCT	Adequate	Unclear		Unclear			Unclear

P Prospectively study, RCT Randomised controlled trial, R Respectively study, M mutli-centers
The symbol "*" represents score

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