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Total versus subtotal hysterectomy for benign gynaecological conditions

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD004993.pub3Copy DOI
Database:
  1. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Version published:
  1. 18 April 2012see what's new
Type:
  1. Intervention
Stage:
  1. Review
Cochrane Editorial Group:
  1. Cochrane Gynaecology and Fertility Group

Copyright:
  1. Copyright © 2012 The Cochrane Collaboration. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Authors

  • Anne Lethaby

    Correspondence to: Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    [email protected]

  • Asima Mukhopadhyay

    Gynaecological Oncology, Northern Gynaecological Oncology Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, UK

  • Raj Naik

    Gynaecological Oncology, Northern Gynaecological Oncology Centre, Gateshead, UK

Contributions of authors

Valeria Ivanova devised the idea for the review and wrote the protocol after discussion with Professor Cindy Farquhar. She selected trials for inclusion and extracted data.

Anne Lethaby commented on the protocol and finalised the protocol after peer review. She performed searches for trials, selected trials for inclusion, extracted and entered data, assessed all studies for risk of bias and wrote the remaining sections of the review. She also led the 2011 update of the review.

Asima Mukhopadhyay selected trials for inclusion, extracted data and assessed studies for risk of bias and commented on the text of the review for the 2011 update. She also provided clinical input and wrote the discussion.

Raj Naik provided clinical input during the selection of primary and secondary outcomes for the 2011 update and also commented on the text of the review.

Neil Johnson commented on the text of the original publication of the review.

Sources of support

Internal sources

  • Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

External sources

  • No sources of support supplied

Declarations of interest

None known

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the editorial group of the Cochrane Menstrual Disorders and Subfertility Group for their help and guidance with this review: Shauna Sylvester, Jane Clarke, and Helen Nagels Managing Editors, and Lisa McComb Williams and Marian Showell, Trials Search Coordinators.

We also thank Neil Johnson and Valeria Ivanova for their contributions to previous versions of this review.

Version history

Published

Title

Stage

Authors

Version

2012 Apr 18

Total versus subtotal hysterectomy for benign gynaecological conditions

Review

Anne Lethaby, Asima Mukhopadhyay, Raj Naik

https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD004993.pub3

2006 Apr 19

Total versus subtotal hysterectomy for benign gynaecological conditions

Review

Anne Lethaby, Valeria Ivanova, Neil Johnson

https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD004993.pub2

2004 Oct 18

Total versus subtotal hysterectomy for benign gynaecological conditions

Protocol

Valeria Ivanova, Neil P Johnson, Anne Lethaby

https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD004993

Differences between protocol and review

For the 2011 update, as a result of peer review, the list of outcomes was simplified and analysed according to only two periods of follow up: within two years and greater than two years.