Cure8 research brief
Planned synthesis of global surgical rates and outcomes in the biologics era could help clinicians, patients, and researchers understand how often surgery is needed, what types of operations are performed, and common postoperative complications across regions and time.
Clinicians, surgical teams, researchers studying Crohn’s disease outcomes, patients considering or recovering from IBD-related surgery, and pediatric IBD specialists.
This record describes the review methods rather than results. The authors will search MEDLINE, Embase, and CINAHL and include observational studies and randomized trials. They plan meta-analysis or narrative synthesis depending on heterogeneity and will assess risk of bias and perform subgroup analyses by region and time period.
The protocol is registered on PROSPERO (CRD420251006137) and does not report findings—only planned methods. Look for a future peer-reviewed publication for the review’s results and conclusions.
This is a protocol (no results yet) registered on PROSPERO and limited to studies published 9 Feb 2015–10 Feb 2025. The article describes planned methods and intended analyses but does not provide outcome data.
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