Antibiotics v placebo in patients having appendectomy*
| Weighted events rate | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outcomes | Number of comparisons (n) | Antibiotics | Placebo | RRR (95% CI) | NNT (CI) |
| *Abbreviations defined in glossary; RRR, NNT, and CI calculated from data in article. A fixed effects model was used for all analyses. Follow up data were not consistently reported in individual trials. | |||||
| Wound infection | 71 (8643) | 5.3% | 14.6% | 60% (55 to 65) | 11 (10 to 13) |
| Intra-abdominal abscess | 20 (4468) | 0.7% | 1.7% | 51% (18 to 70) | 100 (59 to 334) |
CiteULike
Delicious
Digg
Facebook
Google+
Mendeley
Reddit
Technorati
Twitter
The club runs like other journal discussion groups, except that the article and questions are posted on this blog and
the discussion about the article happens on Twitter.
How to participate >>
Don't forget to sign up for content alerts so you keep up to date with all the articles as they are published.
Online ISSN 1468-9618
Copyright © 2013 by the BMJ Publishing Group Ltd & The RCN Publishing Company Ltd
