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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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Strictures in Crohn's Disease: From Pathophysiology to Treatment.

TL;DR: Although its long-term outcomes may be debated, endoscopic balloon dilation appears to be the safest and most effective approach to treat appropriately selected strictures in Crohn’s disease patients.
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Decrease in primary but not in secondary abdominal surgery for Crohn's disease: nationwide cohort study, 1990-2014.

TL;DR: Treatment of patients with Crohn's disease has evolved in recent decades, with increasing use of immunomodulatory medication since 1990 and biologicals since 1998, and increased use of active disease monitoring since 1998.
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Trends in health-care costs and utilization for inflammatory bowel disease from 2010 to 2014 in Korea: A nationwide population-based study.

TL;DR: This study aimed to investigate the nationwide prevalence and health‐care cost and utilization of IBD in Korea and found that IBD is a major public health problem in Korea.
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Abdominal Emergencies in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

TL;DR: A multidisciplinary team including surgeons, gastroenterologists, radiologists, nutritional support services, and enterostomal therapists are required for optimal patient care and decision making in emergent presentations of inflammatory bowel disease.
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R: A language and environment for statistical computing.

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Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses

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Quantifying heterogeneity in a meta‐analysis

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Meta-analysis of observational studies in epidemiology - A proposal for reporting

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Operating characteristics of a rank correlation test for publication bias.

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