Critical appraisal:Balamucki CJ, Mancuso AA, Amdur RJ, Kirwan JM, Morris CG, Flowers FP, et al 2012
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Risk of bias assessment: cohort study
Subject selection
"New technology" group
- Selected group
Comparison group
- Selected group
Comparability of groups on demographic characteristics and clinical features
- Not comparable and not adjusted for differences
Measurement of outcomes
Same method of measurement used across comparison groups
- Yes
Completeness of follow-up
Was follow-up complete and were all patients included in the analysis?
- Reasonable follow-up of all groups (>80%)
Overall risk of bias
High risk of bias | Additional comments: |
- Article
- Balamucki CJ, Mancuso AA, Amdur RJ, Kirwan JM, Morris CG, Flowers FP, et al. Skin carcinoma of the head and neck with perineural invasion. Am J Otolaryngol 2012 Jul;33(4):447-54 Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22185685.
- Assigned to
- User:Albert.chetcuti
- Topic area
- Guidelines:Keratinocyte carcinoma
- Clinical question
- Form
- Form:Quality appraisal cohort
- Outcomes
- Overall survival; cause-specific survival,; disease-free survival; freedom from distant metastases
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