Volume 8•Issue 10

Aim: To estimate the comparative efficacy of nivolumab ± ipilimumab versus alternative treatments for small-cell lung cancer after at least one prior line of chemotherapy. Materials & m ethods: A systematic literature review identified six randomized ...

Aim: To compare efficacy between total gastrectomy (TG) and proximal gastrectomy (PG) for upper-third gastric cancer. Materials & methods: PubMed, Embase and Cochrane library were searched to select suitable researches. Stata was used for meta-analysis ...

Aim: We aimed to compare conservative treatment with surgery for uncomplicated pediatric appendicitis to estimate effectiveness and safety. Methods: Data recorded until September 2018 were searched, and relevant academic articles from PubMed, EMBASE, ...

Aims/patients & methods: To evaluate the risk of acute kidney injury (AKI) in patients with HIV receiving proton pump inhibitors (PPI) a cohort study was conducted utilizing the Veterans Affairs Informatics and Computing Infrastructure (VINCI) database. ...

Aim: To assess the efficiency and safety of negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) in the total hip and knee arthroplasty, we conducted a meta-analysis from randomized controlled trials. Methods: Potential academic articles were identified from the ...

Aim: The purpose of this study was to conduct a meta-analysis to systematically compare the clinical outcomes between knee barbed sutures (KBS) and knee traditional sutures (KTS) for wound closure in total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Method: This study ...

Background: Recruitment of participants into research studies, especially individuals from minority groups, is challenging; lack of diversity may lead to biased findings. Aim: To explore beliefs about research participation among individuals who were ...