Stapled haemorrhoidectomy (haemorrhoidopexy) for the treatment of haemorrhoids: A systematic review and economic evaluation

Health Technology Assessment

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Burch, J ^a   Epstein, D ^b   Baba Akbari, A ^a   Weatherly, H ^b   Fox, D ^a   Golder, S ^a   Jayne, D ^c   Drummond, M ^b   Woolacott, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ANAL STENOSIS; ANUS DISEASE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONVALESCENCE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; DEFECATION URGENCY; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; FECES INCONTINENCE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HEMORRHOID; HEMORRHOIDECTOMY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE MOTILITY; LENGTH OF STAY; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE THROMBOSIS; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTOVAGINAL FISTULA; RECTUM PROLAPSE; RECURRENCE RISK; REOPERATION; REVIEW; SCLEROTHERAPY; SEPSIS; SHORT FORM 36; SURGICAL STAPLING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE RETENTION; WOUND HEALING; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; COMORBIDITY; ECONOMICS; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK FACTOR; SUTURE;

COMORBIDITY; HEMORRHOIDS; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RISK FACTORS; SUTURES; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 43549096177     PISSN: 13665278     EISSN: 20464924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3310/hta12080     Document Type: Article

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