Drain use vs No drain: Length of hospital stay
Drain use showed no clear difference in length of hospital stay compared with no drain use (moderate certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Drain use vs no drain use Length of hospital stay · people undergoing elective open pancreatic resections Drain use showed no clear difference in length of hospital stay compared with no drain use (moderate certainty). Prophylactic abdominal drainage for pancreatic surgery (2018) · Cochrane Headline outcomes onlyearlier version CD010583.PUB4, superseded | no estimate extracted | 3 studies · 711 participants | Moderate |
Drain use vs no drain use Length of hospital stay · people undergoing elective open pancreatic resections Drain use showed no clear difference in length of hospital stay compared with no drain use (moderate certainty). Prophylactic abdominal drainage for pancreatic surgery (2016) · Cochrane Headline outcomes onlyearlier version CD010583.PUB3, superseded | no estimate extracted | 3 studies · 711 participants | Moderate |
Drain use vs no drain use Length of hospital stay · Patients undergoing elective open pancreatic resections It is very uncertain whether drain use changes length of hospital stay compared with no drain use (very low certainty). Prophylactic abdominal drainage for pancreatic surgery (2015) · Cochrane Headline outcomes onlyearlier version CD010583.PUB2, superseded | no estimate extracted | 2 studies · 316 participants | Very low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prophylactic abdominal drainage for pancreatic surgery 2021 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not 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.