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Risk of Surgery for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Has Decreased Over Time: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Population-Based Studies

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The risk of intestinal surgery among patients with IBD has decreased over the past 6 decades, and the trend in risk of surgery over time was analyzed by meta-regression using mixed-effect models.
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This article is published in Gastroenterology.The article was published on 2013-11-01. It has received 623 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Inflammatory bowel disease & Population.

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Postoperative Use of Biologics was Less Common among Patients with Crohn's Disease With Emergent/Urgent Versus Elective Intestinal Resection.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors compared postoperative treatment strategies for Crohn's disease between emergent/urgent versus elective resection, and found that emergent resection was associated with more common use of "other non-biologic" medications.
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Ostomy-Related Quality of Life in Puerto Ricans Living With Inflammatory Bowel Disease

TL;DR: In this paper , a study was conducted to determine ostomy-related quality of life (QOL) in Hispanic Puerto Ricans living with an enteral stoma and inflammatory bowel disease.
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Efficacy of Early Adalimumab or Immunomodulator on Postoperative Remission Maintenance in Patients with Crohn's Disease: Randomized study

TL;DR: Early ADA did not show statistically better efficacy than AZA for postoperative CD recurrence in this study, although safety profile of ADA is better.
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R: A language and environment for statistical computing.

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TL;DR: Copyright (©) 1999–2012 R Foundation for Statistical Computing; permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and permission notice are preserved on all copies.
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Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses

TL;DR: A new quantity is developed, I 2, which the authors believe gives a better measure of the consistency between trials in a meta-analysis, which is susceptible to the number of trials included in the meta- analysis.
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Quantifying heterogeneity in a meta‐analysis

TL;DR: It is concluded that H and I2, which can usually be calculated for published meta-analyses, are particularly useful summaries of the impact of heterogeneity, and one or both should be presented in publishedMeta-an analyses in preference to the test for heterogeneity.
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Meta-analysis of observational studies in epidemiology - A proposal for reporting

TL;DR: A checklist contains specifications for reporting of meta-analyses of observational studies in epidemiology, including background, search strategy, methods, results, discussion, and conclusion should improve the usefulness ofMeta-an analyses for authors, reviewers, editors, readers, and decision makers.
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Operating characteristics of a rank correlation test for publication bias.

TL;DR: In this paper, an adjusted rank correlation test is proposed as a technique for identifying publication bias in a meta-analysis, and its operating characteristics are evaluated via simulations, and the test statistic is a direct statistical analogue of the popular funnel-graph.
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