13.

Parenchymal transection: adverse events (proportion)

Forest plot of the comparisons in which direct and indirect estimates were available. There does not appear to be any discrepancy between the direct and indirect estimates, although the indirect estimates have wide credible intervals.

Direct evidence appears to be preferable over indirect evidence and network meta‐analysis based on the quality of evidence.

CUSA: cavitron ultrsonic surgical aspirator; RFDS: radiofrequency dissecting sealer.

¹Risk of bias was unclear or high in the trial(s) (downgraded by 1 point).
 ²Sample size was low (downgraded by 1 point).
 ³Confidence intervals spanned no effect and clinically significant effect (downgraded by 1 point).
 ⁴There was substantial or considerable heterogeneity (downgraded by 2 points).