Efficacy and safety of femoral nerve block for the positioning of femur fracture patients before a spinal block – A systematic review and meta-analysis

• Yuan-Pin Hsu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Emergency Department, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Emergency, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Chin-Wang Hsu,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation

  Affiliations Emergency Department, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Emergency, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Karen Chia Wen Chu,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Emergency Department, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Emergency, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Wen-Cheng Huang,

  Roles Data curation, Validation

  Affiliations Emergency Department, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Emergency, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Chyi-Huey Bai,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Chun-Jen Huang,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Anesthesiology, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Sheng-Wei Cheng,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliations Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4514-1678

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• Jin-Hua Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jin-Hua Chen, Chiehfeng Chen

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: clifchen@tmu.edu.tw (CC); jh_chen@tmu.edu.tw (JHC)

  Affiliations Graduate Institute of Data Science, College of Management, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Biostatistics Center, College of Management, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medical Education and Research, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Chiehfeng Chen

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jin-Hua Chen, Chiehfeng Chen

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: clifchen@tmu.edu.tw (CC); jh_chen@tmu.edu.tw (JHC)

  Affiliations Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Cochrane Taiwan, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Evidence-based Medicine Center, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1595-6553

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