Question · asked by 1 review

Local excision vs radical resection: Sphincter functionÂ

What each review found

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FindingEffectStudiesGRADE certainty
Local excision vs radical resection
Sphincter function · stage I rectal cancer in adults
Local versus radical surgery for early rectal cancer with or without neoadjuvant or adjuvant therapy (2023) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
no estimate extracted3 studies · 165 participantsLow

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

The reviews

ReviewSearched up toIncluded studiesAMSTAR 2
Local versus radical surgery for early rectal cancer with or without neoadjuvant or adjuvant therapy
2023 · 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.