One group had published data concerning outcome after locoregional relapse, and were able to supply us with the method of detection for all of these relapses after correspondence (van der Sangen et al, 2006).
Nevertheless, and despite decades of research into the effects of antibiotics, the actual risk posed to human health by antibiotic resistance has been poorly defined; the lack of reliable data concerning the outcomes resulting from antimicrobial resistance stems, in part, from problems with study designs and the methods used in resistence determination.
Data concerning patients, outcomes, study methods, and laboratory methods were abstracted.
Using common language it improves communication and facilitates the comparison of data concerning health outcomes.
Data concerning postoperative outcomes, functional results, and follow-up are reported in Table 2. Length of hospitalization and nasogastric feeding tube removal time were 23.3 ± 6.2 (range 14 43) days and 13.9 ± 1.7 (range 11 16) days, respectively.
Data concerning the outcome variables, psychiatric inpatient or outpatient treatment were derived from The Danish Psychiatric Central Register.
If data concerning the outcome were missing from an article, the investigators attempted to contact the primary author in order to obtain this missing data.
There are very few data concerning the outcome after short-segment posterior stabilization and anterior spondylodesis with rib grafts in patients suffering from unstable thoracolumbar burst fractures.
Although the study population was small, the data concerning seizure outcome are in line with previous reports [ 29, 30], thus suggesting that the good results were independent of the subtype and the site and side of the excised lesion.
