Long-term Functional Outcomes after Regional Anesthesia: A Summary of the Published Evidence and a Recent Cochrane Review.

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

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Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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3. Local anaesthetics and regional anaesthesia versus conventional analgesia for preventing persistent postoperative pain in adults and children.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018
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4. Local anaesthetics and regional anaesthesia versus conventional analgesia for preventing persistent postoperative pain in adults and children.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018
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Abstract

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