Meta-analysis comparison of open versus percutaneous tracheostomy

Laryngoscope

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 447-454

  Higgins, Kevin M ^a,b   Punthakee, Xerxes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complications; Cost effectiveness; Meta analysis; Open; Percutaneous; Tracheostomy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEATH; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; META ANALYSIS; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCAR FORMATION; SUBGLOTTIC STENOSIS; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRACHEOSTOMY;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33947162170     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000251585.31778.c9     Document Type: Article

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