Validation of the Baveno VI criteria for the screening of gastroesophageal varices in our hospital

Baveno Criteria Safely Identify Patients With Compensated Advanced Chronic Liver Disease Who Can Avoid Variceal Screening Endoscopy: A Diagnostic Test Accuracy Meta-Analysis

“…For the same reason, only subgroups of two multicenter studies (Augustin et al, 2017; Petta et al, 2018) were eligible for inclusion (Supplementary Appendix 3). Finally, 17 journal articles and 11 conference abstracts were included (Perazzo et al, 2015; Chang et al, 2016; Maurice et al, 2016; Arriero et al, 2017; Augustin et al, 2017; Jangouk et al, 2017; Llop et al, 2017; Perez Ferrer et al, 2017; Silva et al, 2017; Sousa et al, 2017; Bae et al, 2018; Bai et al, 2018; Bellan et al, 2018; Cales et al, 2018; Colecchia et al, 2018; Kew et al, 2018; Lee et al, 2018; Levick et al, 2018; Matsui et al, 2018; McDowell et al, 2018; Ng et al, 2018; Pawar et al, 2018; Petta et al, 2018; Stanislas et al, 2018; Tadkalkar et al, 2018; Moctezuma-Velazquez et al, 2019; Thabut et al, 2019; Tosetti et al, 2019a,b). All the 28 studies provided data on missed VNT rate and SER but one conference abstract (Tosetti et al, 2019b) was used only in subgroup analysis by etiology due to overlapping study population with a full-text article in the main analysis (Tosetti et al, 2019a).…”