Table 1.
Characteristics of included studies.
| Study
author, year (reference) |
Study design | Number
of patients Total |
Outcomes included | Method
of closure selection |
Silo
group contains surgical silos |
Data
for uncomplicated gastroschisis only |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary | Silo | ||||||
| Allotey, 2007 (20) | Retrospective, single-center review | 53 | TFiF, TFuF, PND, ventilator days, LOS, infection, NEC, mortality | Temporal | No | Yes | |
| 40 | 13 | ||||||
| Banyard, 2010 (21) | Retrospective, single-center review | 235 | TFiF, PND, ventilator days, LOS, NEC, mortality | Surgeon preference | Yes | No | |
| 188 | 47 | ||||||
| Bonnard, 2008 (22) | Retrospective, single-center, case-control | 22 | TFiF, TFuF, PND, ventilator days, LOS, infection, NEC, mortality | Surgeon preference | Yes | Yes | |
| 11 | 11 | ||||||
| Bradnock, 2011 (23) | Prospective, multi-center cohort study | 219 | TFuF, PND, LOS, infection, NEC | Surgeon preference | No | Yes | |
| 120 | 99 | ||||||
| Chiu, 2006 (24) | Retrospective, single-center review | 48 | TFuF, ventilator days, LOS, infection, NEC, mortality | Temporal | No | No | |
| 28 | 20 | ||||||
| Driver, 2000 (25) | Retrospective, single-center review | 90 | TFuF, PND, LOS | Primary failure | Yes | No | |
| 72 | 18 | ||||||
| Eggink, 2006 (26) | Retrospective, single-center review | 55 | TFiF, TFuF, ventilator days, infection | Surgeon preference | Yes | Yes | |
| 21 | 34 | ||||||
| Kandasamy, 2010 (27) | Retrospective, single-center review | 28 | TFiF, TFuF, PND, ventilator days, LOS, infection, NEC, mortality | Primary failure | Yes | Yes | |
| 22 | 6 | ||||||
| Kidd, 2003 (15) | Retrospective, single-center review | 118 | TFuF, ventilator days, LOS, infection, NEC, mortality | Primary failure | Yes | No | |
| 58 | 60 | ||||||
| Lobo, 2010 (28) | Retrospective, single-center review | 37 | TFiF, TFuF, PND, ventilator days, LOS, infection, NEC, mortality | Primary failure | No | No | |
| 10 | 27 | ||||||
| McNamara, 2010 (29) | Retrospective, single-center review | 14 | TFiF, PND, LOS | Surgeon preference | No | Yes: TFiF, PND No: LOS | |
| 5 | 9 | ||||||
| Minkes, 2000 (30) | Retrospective, single-center review | 43 | TFuF, ventilator days, LOS, NEC | Temporal | No | No | |
| 30 | 13 | ||||||
| Owen, 2006 (31) | Retrospective, single-center, case-control | 48 | TFiF, TFuF, PND, ventilator days, LOS, infection, NEC | Surgeon preference | No | Yes | |
| 27 | 21 | ||||||
| Owen, 2010 (32) | Prospective cohort study | 290 | Infection, NEC, mortality | Surgeon preference | No | Yes | |
| 170 | 120 | ||||||
| Pastor, 2008 (33) | Multicenter randomized controlled trial | 54 | PND, ventilator days, LOS, infection, NEC, mortality | Random | No | No | |
| 27 | 27 | ||||||
| Schlatter, 2003 (12) | Retrospective, single-center review | 65 | TFiF, TFuF, PND, ventilator days, LOS, infection, NEC, mortality | Temporal | No | No | |
| 39 | 26 | ||||||
| Schmidt, 2011 (34) | Prospective, single-center cohort study | 45 | TFiF, PND, LOS, infection, NEC | Primary fail | Yes | No | |
| 24 | 21 | ||||||
| Singh, 2003 (35) | Retrospective, multicenter review | 181 | PND, ventilator days, LOS, infection, mortality | Primary fail | No | No | |
| 151 | 30 | ||||||
| Tsai, 2010 (36) | Retrospective, single-center review | 44 | TFuF, ventilator days, LOS, infection, NEC, mortality | Surgeon preference | Yes | Yes: TFuF, ventilator days, LOS, mortality No: infection, NEC | |
| 32 | 12 | ||||||
| Weil, 2012 (37) | Retrospective, single-center review | 190 | TFuF, ventilator days, LOS, infection, mortality | Surgeon preference | No | No | |
| 43 | 147 | ||||||
LOS = length of stay; NEC = necrotizing enterocolitis; TFiF = time to first feed; TFuF = time to full feeds; primary fail = silo after failure of primary closure