Fig 1.
PRISMA flow diagram.
Table 1.
Summary of the included studies.
Table 2.
Quality assessment: The Newcastle Ottawa Scale [NOS] for assessing the quality of nonrandomized studies.
Table 3.
Baseline characteristics of the included data.
Fig 2.
Forest plot of the subgroup analysis between MDW and PCT levels.
Fig 3.
Forest plot of the MDW [AUC].
Fig 4.
Forest plot of the PCT [AUC].
Fig 5.
Forest plot of the sensitivity and specificity of MDW different levels.
Fig 6.
SROC plot of the sensitivity and specificity of MDW different levels.