Additionally, a systematic review of invasive procedures for coronary heart disease found that inequalities in waiting times and procedures rates existed in the UK [ 12].
A recent Cochrane systematic review of perineal procedures during labour for reducing perineal trauma found that the application of warm compresses to the perineum halved the risk of OASIS (RR 0.48, 95% CI 0.28, 0.84) based on two RCTs.
As regards macroangiopathy, coronary artery disease (CAD) was retrospectively inferred from medical history (myocardial infarction, angioplasty, stenting, revascularization surgery and/or significant coronary stenosis confirmed by angiography) and systematic review of all procedures, screening (exercise testing, echocardiography) or subclinical disease imaging data in the patient's records.
From the most recently published systematic review of each procedure, we selected randomised placebo-controlled trials published later than January 2000.
The scarce number of reports on the use of US-guided PDT (US-PDT) and its recent inclusion in the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society practice guidelines [ 17] mandate a systematic review of this procedure.
To produce a simplified VA instrument, the World Health Organization (WHO) carried out a systematic review of VA instruments and procedures, followed by an expert consultation.
A systematic review of this treatment found the procedure to be effective, but there is little evidence of superiority to other treatments [19].
Design: systematic review of 94 published series (7863 synchronous procedures).
Music for pain and anxiety in children undergoing medical procedures: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.
When sample size and proportions were missing we did not impute or estimate them for meta-analysis because none of the suggested imputations in the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Review of Interventions were considered reliable (following procedures in previous Cochrane reviews under advice from the statistician of our Cochrane Review Group) (Higgins 2011).
A systematic review of a wide range of surgical procedures concluded that the use of local anaesthetic wound infiltration as part of a multimodal approach reduced post-operative pain, opioid use, nausea and vomiting, improved patient satisfaction and reduced the length of hospital stay[ 18].
