• Early diagnosis is associated with improved clinical outcomes in benign esophageal perforation: an individual patient data meta‑analysis 

      Vermeulen, Bram D.; van der Leeden, Britt; Ali, Jawad T.; Gudbjartsson, Tomas; Hermansson, Michael; Low, Donald E.; Adler, Douglas G.; Botha, Abraham J.; D’Journo, Xavier B.; Eroglu, Atila; Ferri, Lorenzo E.; Gubler, Christoph; Haveman, Jan Willem; Kaman, Lileswar; Kozarek, Richard A.; Law, Simon; Loske, Gunnar; Lindenmann, Joerg; Park, Jung-Hoon; Richardson, J. David; Salminen, Paulina; Song, Ho-Yong; Søreide, Jon Arne; Spaander, Manon; Tarascio, Jeffrey N.; Tsai, Jon A.; Vanuytsel, Tim; Rosman, Camiel; Siersema, Peter D.; van der Bogt, Ruben D.; Birch, Madeleine; Dubose, Joseph J.; Fox, Sam; Jaklitsch, Michael T.; Kuppusamy, Madhan K.; Persson, Saga; Rice, Robert D.; Smolle, Josef; Smolle-Juettner, Freyja M.; Sudarshan, Monisha; Sutcliffe, Robert P.; Vidarsdottir, Halla; Viste, Asgaut (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Background Time of diagnosis (TOD) of benign esophageal perforation is regarded as an important risk factor for clinical outcome, although convincing evidence is lacking. The aim of this study is to assess whether time ...