Table 2.

Analysis of 2 RCT's of Meta analysis of Henriksen.

	Suture techniqueSmall bites		Suture techniqueBig bites		Odds Ratio
Study	Incisional hernia	Total Number	Incisional hernia	Total Number	Weight	M-H, Random, 95% CI
Millbourn 2009	14	250	49	272	46.1%	0.27 (0.15, 0.50)
Deerenberg 2015	35	268	57	277	53.9%	0.58 (0.37, 0.92)
Total (95% CI)		518		549	100%	0.41 (0.19, 0.86)
Total events	49		106

Heterogeneity: Tau² = 0.22; Chi² = 3.77, df = 1 (p = 0.05); I² = 73%.

Test for overal effect: Z = 2.35 (p = 0.02).