Medical and surgical interventions for the treatment of urinary stones in children.

CONCLUSIONS: Based on mostly very low-quality evidence for most comparisons and outcomes, we are uncertain about the effect of nearly all medical and surgical interventions to treat stone disease in children.Common reasons why we downgraded our assessments of the quality of evidence were: study limitations (risk of bias), indirectness, and imprecision. These issues make it difficult to draw clinical inferences. It is important that affected individuals, clinicians, and policy-makers are aware of these limitations of the evidence. There is a critical need for better quality trials assessing patient-important outcomes in children with stone disease to inform future guidelines on the management of this condition. PMID: 31596944 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31596944?dopt=Abstract

Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - October 8, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Barreto L, Jung JH, Abdelrahim A, Ahmed M, Dawkins GPC, Kazmierski M Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research