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Table 5 Data sources for recurrence at one year

From: Design, planning and implementation lessons learnt from a surgical multi-centre randomised controlled trial

 

RBL (N = 176)

HAL (N = 161)

Recurrence at one year (total)

87 (49%)

48 (30%)

Self-reported recurrencea

37 (29%b)

34 (29%b)

Data from GP and consultant questionnairesa

60 (35%)

23 (14%)

  1. Adapted with permission from Brown et al. 2016 [27]. HAL haemorrhoidal artery ligation, RBL rubber band ligation, GP general practitioner
  2. aIndividuals may contribute data to both measures of recurrence
  3. bDenominator is number of patients returning questionnaire