The economic impact of anastomotic leakage after colorectal surgery: a systematic review

Fig. 1. Flow diagram of the study screening and selection. From: Page et al. [11]. 10.1136/bmj.n71

Fig. 2. Quality assessment of the included studies by the adapted CHEC list. The mean score of reviewer 1 and 2 is depicted by the horizontal black line. An overview of the included scoring items from the original CHEC list can be found in supplementary file 2

Fig. 3. Specification of costs of AL compared with no AL. AL anastomotic leakage, ICU intensive care unit, NR not reported. General or unspecified costs were mentioned in the referred articles as: “costs other departments,” “building cost management,” “external service,” “administrative costs.” All costs are presented in 2022 euros (€) with proportions (%) of total costs horizontally presented. Costs are not corrected for purchasing power disparities