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ArticleSurgical endoscopy2016

SAGES guidelines for laparoscopic ventral hernia repair.

David Earle, J Scott Roth, Alan Saber, Steve Haggerty, Joel F Bradley, Robert Fanelli, Raymond Price, William S Richardson, Dimitrios Stefanidis, SAGES Guidelines Committee

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Article in Surgical endoscopy, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 84 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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84citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

84 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Seroma prevention strategies in laparoscopic ventral hernia repair: a systematic review.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2020
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24 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

David EarleOchsner Clinic, 1514 Jefferson Highway, New Orleans, LA, 70121, USA.
J Scott RothOchsner Clinic, 1514 Jefferson Highway, New Orleans, LA, 70121, USA.
Alan SaberOchsner Clinic, 1514 Jefferson Highway, New Orleans, LA, 70121, USA.
Steve HaggertyOchsner Clinic, 1514 Jefferson Highway, New Orleans, LA, 70121, USA.
Joel F BradleyOchsner Clinic, 1514 Jefferson Highway, New Orleans, LA, 70121, USA.
Robert FanelliOchsner Clinic, 1514 Jefferson Highway, New Orleans, LA, 70121, USA.
Raymond PriceOchsner Clinic, 1514 Jefferson Highway, New Orleans, LA, 70121, USA.
William S RichardsonOchsner Clinic, 1514 Jefferson Highway, New Orleans, LA, 70121, USA. wrichardson@ochsner.org.
Dimitrios StefanidisOchsner Clinic, 1514 Jefferson Highway, New Orleans, LA, 70121, USA.
SAGES Guidelines Committee

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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