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Table 1 Quality assessment

From: Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug induced acute kidney injury in the community dwelling general population and people with chronic kidney disease: systematic review and meta-analysis

  1. aIf cases are first occurrence of outcome, then it must explicitly state that controls have no history of this outcome. If cases have new (not necessarily first) occurrence of outcome, then controls with previous occurrences of outcome of interest will not be excluded
  2. b = same non-response rate for both groups reported ; NP = not reporting non-response rate is Not a Problem (since bias is less likely if the cases and controls come from the same population and have outcomes and exposures ascertained in the same way)
  3. c CC case-control, N-CC nested case-control
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BMC Nephrology

ISSN: 1471-2369

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