Study First Author | Ref. | Year | Patients (n) | Stage Investigated | Follow Up (months) | Design | Record Bias | Reporting Bias (Outcome Measure) | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Min | Max | Mean | ||||||||
Babiak | [28] | 2012 | 9 | Two | 36 | 180 | 84 | NA | Yes | NA |
Babis | [29] | 2015 | 31 | Two | 20 | 48 | 30 | Retrospective | Yes | Symptoms, Imaging, Laboratory |
Berend | [30] | 2013 | 186 | Two | 24 | 180 | 53 | Retrospective | NR | Culture |
Biring | [31] | 2009 | 48 | Two | 120 | 180 | 144 | Retrospective | Yes | Culture |
Bori | [32] | 2014 | 24 | Single | 25 | 94 | 45 | Retrospective | Yes | Culture |
Buchholz | [33] | 1981 | 583 | Single | 24 | 132 | – | Prospective | Yes | Culture |
Buttaro | [34] | 2005 | 29 | Two | 24 | 60 | 32.4 | Retrospective | Yes | Symptoms, Imaging, Laboratory |
Cabrita | [8] | 2007 | 38 | Two | 24 | 102 | 48 | Prospective | Yes | Culture |
Callaghan | [35] | 1999 | 12 | Single | 12 | 168 | 109.2 | Retrospective | Yes | Imaging |
Camurcu | [36] | 2015 | 41 | Two | 24 | 96 | 54 | Retrospective | Yes | Culture |
Carlsson | [37] | 1985 | 72 | Both | 12 | 72 | – | Prospective | Yes | Symptoms, Imaging, Culture |
Chen | [38] | 2015 | 155 | Two | 36 | 180 | 116.4 | Retrospective | NR | Culture |
Choi | [12] | 2013 | 61 | Both | 12 | 132 | 61 | Retrospective | Yes | Culture |
Colyer | [10] | 1994 | 37 | Two | 12 | 88 | 36 | Unclear | Yes | Culture |
Cordero-Ampuero | [39] | 2009 | 36 | Two | 12 | 144 | 52.8 | Prospective | Yes | Culture |
D'Angelo | [40] | 2011 | 28 | Two | 18 | 106 | 53 | Retrospective | Yes | Symptoms, Imaging, Laboratory |
Darley | [41] | 2009 | 19 | Two | 24 | 36 | 26 | Prospective | Yes | Symptoms, Culture |
De Man | [42] | 2011 | 72 | Both | 17 | 204 | 60 | Retrospective | Yes | Culture |
Degen | [43] | 2012 | 30 | Two | 24 | 70 | 43 | Retrospective | Yes | Symptoms, Culture |
Ekpo | [44] | 2014 | 19 | Two | 24 | 132 | 48 | Retrospective | Yes | Laboratory, Culture |
Evans | [45] | 2004 | 23 | Two | 24 | 108 | 48 | Prospective | NR | Symptoms, Culture |
Fehring | [46] | 1999 | 25 | Two | 24 | 98 | 41 | Prospective | Yes | Symptoms, Laboratory |
Fink | [47] | 2009 | 36 | Two | 24 | 60 | 35 | Prospective | Yes | Culture |
Fitzgerald | [48] | 1985 | 131 | Two | 24 | 108 | 49 | Retrospective | Yes | Symptoms |
Gao | [49] | 2008 | 15 | Both | 12 | 37 | 19 | NA | NA | Culture |
Garvin | [50] | 1994 | 40 | Both | 24 | 120 | 60 | NA | NA | Culture |
Haddad | [51] | 2000 | 50 | Two | 24 | 104 | 69.6 | Retrospective | Yes | Symptoms |
Hofmann | [52] | 2005 | 27 | Two | 28 | 148 | 76 | Retrospective | Yes | Symptoms, Imaging, Laboratory |
Hope | [53] | 1989 | 80 | Both | 2 | 121 | – | Retrospective | Yes | Culture |
Hsieh | [55] | 2004 | 128 | Two | 24 | 96 | 58.8 | Retrospective | Yes | Symptoms, Laboratory |
Hsieh | [11] | 2009 | 99 | Two | 24 | 60 | 43 | Retrospective | Yes | Symptoms, Culture |
Hsieh | [54] | 2013 | 28 | Two | 48 | 120 | 86 | Retrospective | Yes | Symptoms,Culture, Laboratory |
Hughes | [24] | 1979 | 26 | Both | 32 | 83 | 51 | Retrospective | Yes | Symptoms, Imaging, Laboratory, Culture |
Ibrahim | [56] | 2014 | 125 | Two | 60 | 75 | 103.2 | Retrospective | Yes | Symptoms, Laboratory, Culture |
Ilchmann | [57] | 2015 | 38 | Single | 24 | 181.2 | 79.2 | Retrospective | Yes | Symptoms, Culture |
Jenny | [58] | 2014 | 63 | Single | 36 | 72 | – | Retrospective | Yes | Symptoms, Culture |
Johnson | [59] | 2013 | 66 | Two | 24 | 105 | 45 | Retrospective | Yes | Symptoms, Laboratory, Culture |
Karpas | [60] | 2003 | 18 | Two | 24 | 120 | 42 | Retrospective | Yes | NR |
Kent | [61] | 2010 | 12 | Two | 26 | 60 | 38 | Retrospective | NR | NR |
Ketterl | [13] | 1988 | 161 | Two | 24 | 168 | 32 | NA | NA | NA |
Kim | [63] | 2011 | 130 | Two | 60 | 168 | 124.8 | Retrospective | Yes | Laboratory, Culture |
Klouche | [22] | 2012 | 84 | Both | 24 | 68 | 35 | Prospective | Yes | Culture |
Koo | [62] | 2001 | 22 | Two | 24 | 78 | 41 | Prospective | Yes | Symptoms, Imaging, Laboratory |
Lai | [64] | 1996 | 39 | Two | 30 | 84 | 48 | Prospective | Yes | Symptoms, Laboratory |
Lee | [65] | 2013 | 17 | Two | 24 | 96 | 48 | Retrospective | Yes | Symptoms, Laboratory, Culture |
Leung | [66] | 2011 | 38 | Two | 24 | 123 | 58 | Retrospective | Yes | Symptoms,Laboratory |
Li | [67] | 2015 | 10 | Both | 78 | 187.2 | 103.2 | Retrospective | Yes | Symptoms, Laboratory, Culture |
Lieberman | [68] | 1994 | 32 | Two | 24 | 74 | 40 | Retrospective | NR | NR |
Macheras | [69] | 2012 | 35 | Two | 84 | 168 | 139.2 | Retrospective | Yes | NR |
Magnan | [70] | 2001 | 8 | Two | 24 | 48 | 35 | Retrospective | NR | NR |
Masri | [71] | 2007 | 29 | Two | 24 | 88 | 47 | Retrospective | Yes | Symptoms, Laboratory |
McDonald | [72] | 1989 | 81 | Two | 24 | 163.2 | 66 | Prospective | Yes | Culture |
McKenna | [73] | 2009 | 30 | Two | 24 | 60 | 35 | Retrospective | Yes | Laboratory |
Miley | [74] | 1982 | 46 | Single | 32 | – | 48.5 | Prospective | NR | Unclear |
Morales | [75] | 1999 | 37 | Two | 36 | 156 | 57.6 | NA | NA | NA |
Morscher | [76] | 1994 | 74 | Both | 12 | 132 | 84 | NA | Yes | Symptoms, Imaging, Laboratory |
Mulcahy | [77] | 1996 | 15 | Single | 24 | 84 | 53 | Retrospective | Yes | Symptoms, Imaging, Laboratory, Culture |
Nestor | [78] | 1994 | 34 | Two | 24 | 72 | 47 | Retrospective | Yes | Culture |
Neumann | [79] | 2011 | 44 | Two | 36 | 120 | 67 | Retrospective | Yes | Laboratory |
Nusem | [80] | 2006 | 18 | Two | 60 | 168 | 108 | Retrospective | Yes | Unclear |
Oussedik | [9] | 2010 | 50 | Both | 66 | 105.7 | 81.6 | Prospective | Yes | Imaging, Laboratory |
Pignatti | [81] | 2010 | 41 | Two | 60 | 120 | 63.6 | Retrospective | Yes | Symptoms, Imaging, Laboratory |
Raut | [82] | 1995 | 57 | Single | 24 | 151 | 88 | Prospective | Yes | Symptoms, Laboratory |
Romanò | [83] | 2012 | 183 | Two | 24 | 104 | 56 | Retrospective | Yes | Laboratory, Culture |
Rudelli | [84] | 2008 | 32 | Single | 24 | 96 | 52.8 | Unclear | Yes | Imaging, Laboratory, Culture |
Sabry | [85] | 2013 | 78 | Two | 24.3 | 135.3 | 58 | Retrospective | Yes | Symptoms, Laboratory |
Sanchez | [86] | 2009 | 168 | Two | 24 | 192 | 84 | Retrospective | Yes | Symptoms, Culture |
Sanzen | [87] | 1988 | 102 | Both | 24 | 108 | – | Prospective | Yes | Culture |
Schneider | [88] | 1989 | 26 | Single | 12 | 108 | – | NA | Yes | NA |
Schwarzkopf | [89] | 2014 | 56 | Two | 12 | – | 32.4 | Retrospective | Yes | Laboratory, Culture |
Seung-Jae | [90] | 2009 | 34 | Two | 24 | 120 | 52.8 | Retrospective | Yes | Symptoms, Culture |
Stockley | [91] | 2008 | 114 | Two | 24 | 175 | 74 | Prospective | Yes | Symptoms, Laboratory, Culture |
Sudo | [25] | 2008 | 7 | Two | 27.6 | 73.2 | 60 | Retrospective | Yes | Symptoms, Imaging, Laboratory |
Takigami | [92] | 2010 | 8 | Two | 24 | 81 | 49 | Retrospective | Yes | Symptoms, Laboratory |
Thabe | [93] | 2007 | 16 | Two | 72 | 120 | 75.6 | Prospective | Yes | NR |
Toulson | [94] | 2009 | 82 | Two | 24 | 203 | 64.8 | Retrospective | Yes | Unclear |
Ure | [95] | 1998 | 20 | Single | 42 | 205.2 | 118.8 | Prospective | Yes | Symptoms, Imaging, Laboratory, Culture |
van Diemen | [96] | 2013 | 136 | Two | 24 | 180 | 72 | Retrospective | Yes | Symptoms, Imaging, Laboratory, Culture |
Wang | [97] | 2011 | 12 | Two | 36 | 96 | 64.8 | NA | Yes | NR |
Weber | [98] | 1986 | 33 | Both | 60 | 96 | 72 | Retrospective | NR | Laboratory |
Whittaker | [99] | 2009 | 41 | Two | 25 | 83 | 49 | Retrospective | Yes | Culture, Laboratory |
Wilson | [100] | 1974 | 19 | Single | 24 | – | – | Prospective |  | Culture |
Wilson | [24] | 1989 | 22 | Both | 36 | 120 | 60.2 | Prospective | Yes | Symptoms, Imaging, Laboratory |
Winkler | [27] | 2008 | 37 | Single | 63 | 183 | 103 | Prospective | Yes | Symptoms, Imaging, Laboratory |
Wolf | [101] | 2014 | 92 | Both | 24 | – | – | Retrospective | Yes | Symptoms, Laboratory, Culture |
Wroblewski | [23] | 1986 | 101 | Single | 38.8 | – | – | Prospective | NR | NR |
Yamamoto | [102] | 2003 | 17 | Two | 14 | 62 | 38 | Retrospective | Yes | Laboratory |
Yoo | [103] | 2009 | 12 | Single | 39.6 | 135.6 | 86.4 | Prospective | Yes | Laboratory, Culture |
Younger | [104] | 1997 | 48 | Two | 24 | 63 | 43 | Prospective | Yes | Culture |
Zeller | [105] | 2014 | 99 | Single | 24 | – | 41.6 | Prospective | Yes | NA |