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Table 2 Numbers of included patients, complication rates, intervention rates, length of hospital stay, and mortality for the drain and no drain group

From: The evidence based dilemma of intraperitoneal drainage for pancreatic resection – a systematic review and meta-analysis

Year

Author

All patients

Any complication

Minor complication

Major complication

Fistula (grade B/C)

Abscess

Rad. Intervention

Re-operation

Length of hospital stay (d, estimated mean ± SD)

Mortality

  

Drain

No drain

Drain

No drain

Drain

No drain

Drain

No drain

Drain

No drain

Drain

No drain

Drain

No drain

Drain

No drain

Drain

No drain

Drain

No drain

1998

Heslin[5]

51

38

23

15

13

9

14

8

3

1

3

0

2

1

1

3

12 ± 7

12 ± 6

n.s.

n.s.

2001

Conlon[6]

88

91

66

57

93*

83*

43**

39**

11

0

6

6

11

7

8

4

n.s.

n.s.

2

2

2011

Fisher[8]

179

47

117

22

171***

23***

38

7

21

5

10

2

4

5

8

0

7 ± 2

7 ± 1

1

1

2012

Paulus[10]

39

30

15

20

n.s.

n.s.

n.s.

n.s.

6

0

8

7

5

7

11

8

9 ± 2.5

6.5 ± 1

1

0

2013

Adham[9]

130

112

83

45

46

27

32

48

12

13

16

15

8

14

16

17

16.2 ± 24

17.8 ± 31

7

5

2013

Mehta[11]

251

458

171

248

n.s.

n.s.

62

75

41

35

n.s.

n.s.

21

29

14

26

n.s.

n.s.

5

11

2013

Correa-Gallego[7]

553

569

301

272

n.s.

n.s.

185

150

149

102

n.s.

n.s.

103****

83*****

3****

2*****

n.s.

n.s.

6****

12*****

2014

Van Buren[12]

68

69

50

55

n.s.

n.s.

21

28

8

14

8

18

6

16

2

6

7 ± 2

8 ± 5

2

8

  1. These values were used for the meta-analysis. Consider the difficulty of comparing the length of hospital stay due to its varying specifications, as mentioned in the text. d, days, SD, standard deviation, n.s., not specified.
  2. *Out of 176 (multiple mentions).
  3. **Out of 82 (multiple mentions).
  4. ***Out of 194 (multiple mentions).
  5. ****Out of 540 (subgroup).
  6. *****Out of 549 (subgroup).