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The Safety and Feasibility of Enhanced Recovery after Surgery in Patients Undergoing Pancreaticoduodenectomy: An Updated Meta-Analysis

Table 1

Characteristics and quality assessment of the included studies.

StudyYearCountryStudy designSample sizeTotalMINORS score
ERAS groupControl group

Kennedy et al.2007United StatesCase-control study914413515/24
Vanounou et al.2007United StatesCase-control study1456420913/24
Balzano et al.2008ItalyCase-control study25225250415/24
Abu Hilal et al.2013BritainCase-control study20244414/24
Kobayashi et al.2014JapanCase-control study1009019013/24
Braga et al.2014ItalyCase-control study11511523018/24
Coolsen et al.2014NetherlandsCase-control study869718315/24
Shao et al.2015ChinaCase-control study32531063514/24
Sutcliffe et al.2015BritainCase-control study656513014/24
Williamsson et al.2015SwedenCase-control study505010016/24
Morales Soriano et al.2015SpainCase-control study41448516/24
Joliat et al.2015SwitzerlandCase-control study748716115/24
Bai et al.2016ChinaCase-control study1246318715/24
Zouros et al.2016GreeceCase-control study755012516/24
Deng et al.2017ChinaRCT7683159
Su et al.2017ChinaCase-control study31316215/24
Takagi et al.2019JapanRCT373774
Perinela et al.2019FranceCase-control study47307719/24
Lavu et al.2019United StatesRCT373976
Hwang et al.2019KoreaRCT123124247

RCT: randomized controlled trial; MINORS: methodological index for nonrandomized studies. Unconformity to MINORS score criteria.