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Original publication of the PRISMA statement in the International Journal of Surgery should have acknowledged that in order to
encourage dissemination of the PRISMA statement, the article is freely accessible on bmj.com and has also been previously published in PLoS
Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, and Open Medicine. The authors jointly hold the copyright of this
article. For details on further use, please see the PRISMA website (www.prisma-statement.org/).
1743-9191/$ e see front matter 2010 Surgical Associates Ltd. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
doi:10.1016/j.ijsu.2010.07.299