Methodological Quality of the Included Studies
Supplemental Table 1 depicts NICE Quality Assessment and general
characteristics of the studies included in this review. The studies
included in the review were six retrospective and one prospective study.
Five retrospective and one prospective study had data usable for
meta-analysis pertaining to pre- and post- operative AHI. Four
retrospective studies had data usable for meta-analysis for pre- and
post- operative LSAT. All studies ranked as fair quality besides
Esteller et al,10 which ranked as good quality. This
is due to the study’s prospective design with consecutive recruitment of
participants.