Prevalence of complications in neuromuscular scoliosis surgery: a literature meta-analysis from the past 15 years.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Our objectives were primarily to review the published literature on complications in neuromuscular scoliosis (NMS) surgery and secondarily, by means of a meta-analysis, to determine the overall pooled rates (PR) of various complications associated with NMS surgery.

Methods

PubMed and Embase databases were searched for studies reporting the outcomes and complications of NMS surgery, published from 1997 to May 2011. We focused on NMS as defined by the Scoliosis Research Society's classification. We measured the pooled estimate of the overall complication rates (PR) using a random effects meta-analytic model. This model considers both intra- and inter-study variation in calculating PR.

Results

Systematic review and meta-analysis were performed for 68 cohort and c

SUBMITTER: Sharma S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3676557 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature