Question · asked by 1 review

Early vs delayed laparoscopic appendicectomy: All‐cause mortality

What each review found

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FindingEffectStudiesGRADE certainty
Early vs delayed laparoscopic appendicectomy
Mortality · paediatric participants with appendiceal abscess
Early versus delayed appendicectomy for appendiceal phlegmon or abscess (2024) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
no estimate extracted1 study · 40 participantsVery low
Early vs delayed laparoscopic appendicectomy
Mortality · paediatric participants with appendiceal abscess
Early versus delayed appendicectomy for appendiceal phlegmon or abscess (2017) · Cochrane Headline outcomes onlyearlier version CD011670.PUB2, superseded
no estimate extracted1 study · 40 participantsVery low

Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.

The reviews

ReviewSearched up toIncluded studiesAMSTAR 2
Early versus delayed appendicectomy for appendiceal phlegmon or abscess
2024 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
Not reportedlist not extracted yetNot assessed

Studies behind the findings

None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.

How reviews are matched to this question

Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.