Population
20 RCTs pooling 2,037 patients undergoing unplanned general surgery.
Design
Systematic_review
Authors
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Inadequate PRO reporting and high bias limit interpretability of unplanned surgery trials; challenges existing evidence and leaves open need for standardized CONSORT-compliant RCTs.
There is a lack of well-designed and conducted RCTs in unplanned general surgery that adequately report patient-reported outcomes according to CONSORT standards.
Stevens et al. (2015) studied this question.
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