Antibiotic Prophylaxis for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection after Tension-Free Hernia Repair: A Bayesian and Frequentist Meta-Analysis

Defining the characteristics of certified hernia centers in Italy: The Italian society of hernia and abdominal wall surgery workgroup consensus on systematic reviews of the best available evidences

“…Mean AMSTAR score of these papers was 6.9, with 8 papers scoring 8. Surgical Site infection values were extracted from the 8 best papers [54,[56][57][58][59][60][61][62]. The majority of papers were meta analyses of randomized trials.…”

Chitosan Cross-Linked Bio-based Antimicrobial Polypropylene Meshes for Hernia Repair Loaded with Levofloxacin HCl via Cold Oxygen Plasma

“…Reasons for infection may be the colonization of bacteria of the uneven knitting surfaces of PP meshes which may cause fistula formation around its pore size and result in the formation of granuloma [9]. In fact, pre-operative prophylaxis has no impact on mesh infection prevention because of non-absorbent PP characteristics [10,11]. Mesh infection is difficult to cure, considering continuous antibiotic therapy for a longer duration time, or it may result in the removal of implants [12].…”

Immunoenhancing Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition for Gastrointestinal Surgery

“…A standard meta-analysis also gives an incomplete picture of the relative efficacy of the treatment, because such meta-analysis only evaluates 2 treatments (head-to-head) simultaneously. 42 On the contrary, a multiple-treatments meta-analysis using a Bayesian hierarchical model has the advantage of combining data on different interventions simultaneously. 43 Although there is concern that indirect comparison may be subject to greater bias than direct comparison, it eliminates the concern that inconsistency between direct and indirect comparisons is not recognized in this study.…”