| Quality assessment | No of patients | Effect | Quality | Importance | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No of studies | Design | Risk of bias | Inconsistency | Indirectness | Imprecision | Other considerations | Stenting + planned bowel resection or palliative care | Emergency bowel surgery | Relative (95% CI) | Absolute | ||
| 30-day mortality - Curative intent | ||||||||||||
| 1 | randomised trials | no serious risk of bias1 | no serious inconsistency | no serious indirectness | serious2 | none | [REDACTED TEXT] | [REDACTED TEXT] | [REDACTED TEXT] | [REDACTED TEXT] | MODERATE | CRITICAL |
| 3-year overall survival, event is death from any cause - Curative intent | ||||||||||||
| 1 | randomised trials | no serious risk of bias1 | no serious inconsistency | no serious indirectness | serious2 | none | [REDACTED TEXT] | [REDACTED TEXT] | [REDACTED TEXT] | [REDACTED TEXT] | MODERATE | IMPORTANT |
| Hospital stay (time to event analysis of leaving hospital)- Curative intent | ||||||||||||
| 1 | randomised trials | no serious risk of bias1 | no serious inconsistency | no serious indirectness | serious2 | none | [REDACTED TEXT] | [REDACTED TEXT] | [REDACTED TEXT] | [REDACTED TEXT] | MODERATE | IMPORTANT |
| Hospital stay - Palliative intent | ||||||||||||
| 1 | randomised trials | no serious risk of bias1 | no serious inconsistency | no serious indirectness | serious2 | none | [REDACTED TEXT] | [REDACTED TEXT] | [REDACTED TEXT] | [REDACTED TEXT] | MODERATE | IMPORTANT |
CI: confidence interval; HR: hazard ratio; RR: relative risk
Risk of bias assessed using trial protocol
Quality of evidence downgraded by 1 because of imprecision of the effect estimate (< 300 events for dichotomous outcomes or < 400 patients for continuous outcomes)
Numbers of events or participants were not reported
From: Effectiveness of stenting for acute large bowel obstruction
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