Expert opinion on laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer parallels evidence from a cumulative meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Martel, Guillaume ^a   Crawford, Alyson ^a   Barkun, Jeffrey S ^b   Boushey, Robin P ^a   Ramsay, Craig R ^c   Fergusson, Dean A ^a  

^a OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOOK; CANCER GRADING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; COLORECTAL TUMOR; EXPERT WITNESS; LAPAROSCOPY; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SURVIVAL RATE;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EXPERT TESTIMONY; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84860013529     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035292     Document Type: Article

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