Inhaled Corticosteroid Exposure and Risk of Cataract in Patients with Asthma and COPD: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Table 2

Quality and bias risk assessment in included cross-sectional studies.

Cross-sectional studies	Selection				Comparability	Outcome		Score
	Representativeness of the sample	Sample size	Nonrespondents	Ascertainment of exposure	Based on design and analysis	Assessment of outcome	Statistical test
Toogood et al. [22]	+	−	−	++	+	++	+	7
Mitchell et al. [25]	+	+	−	++	+	+	+	7
Delcourt et al. [37]	+	+	−	++	+	++	+	8
Sweeney et al. [12]	+	+	+	++	+	++	+	9
Walsh et al. [40]	+	+	+	++	+	++	+	9

Note. “+” indicates a point. “Ascertainment of exposure,” “comparability,” and “Assessment of outcome” are the only items with a scale of two points. The remaining items are evaluated as zero or one point.