To whom do the results of the multicenter, randomized, controlled INSECT trial (ISRCTN 24023541) apply? - Assessment of external validity

BMC Surgery

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Fischer, Lars ^a   Knaebel, Hanns P ^b   Golcher, Henriette ^c   Bruckner, Thomas ^a   Diener, Markus K ^a   Bachmann, Jeannine ^d   Büchler, Markus W ^a   Seiler, Christoph M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b B Braun Melsungen AG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; AGE; AGED; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LETTER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REPRODUCIBILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUTURE; WOUND CLOSURE;

ABDOMINAL WOUND CLOSURE TECHNIQUES; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HERNIA, ABDOMINAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX FACTORS; SUTURES;

EID: 84856619750     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2482-12-2     Document Type: Article

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