Recurrence risks in randomized trials of laparoscopic versus open inguinal hernia repair: To pool or not to pool (this is not the question)

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 389, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 492-498

  Stengel, Dirk ^a,b   Bauwens, Kai ^a   Ekkernkamp, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b Unfallkrankenh Berlin Trauma Center   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hernia; Inguinal; Laparoscopy; Meta analysis; Recurrence; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INGUINAL HERNIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; OPEN INGUINAL HERNIA REPAIR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT DISEASE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UNITED KINGDOM;

HERNIA, INGUINAL; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; META-ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RECURRENCE;

EID: 11144339349     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-004-0512-9     Document Type: Article

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