Publications by authors named "Hao-bin Yang"

Background: Patients' satisfaction has been considered as a crucial measurement of health care quality. Our objective was to develop a reliable and practical questionnaire for the assessment of in-patients' satisfaction in Chinese people, and report the current situation of in-patients' satisfaction in the central south area of China through a large-scale cross-sectional study.

Design: In order to generate the questionnaire, we reviewed previous studies, interviewed related people, held discussions, refined questionnaire items after the pilot study, and finally conducted a large cross-sectional survey to test the questionnaire.

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Background: To compare autograft with non-irradiated allograft for reconstruction of anterior cruciate ligament.

Methods: MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Cochrane Library databases, as well as unpublished and ongoing studies were searched through up to 20 July 2013 to identify studies meeting the pre-stated inclusion criteria.

Results: A total of 12 studies (n=1167, including 597 patients in the autograft group and 570 patients in the allograft group) were included.

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Background: Selenium is an important trace element for human health. Although numerous epidemiological and interventional studies have examined the association between selenium and diabetes, their findings have been inconclusive. Moreover, no research has specifically focused on the association between dietary selenium and diabetes in the Asian population.

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Purpose: The purpose of this meta-analysis was to examine the efficacy and safety of single-dose intra-articular bupivacaine in the management of pain after knee arthroscopic surgery.

Method: The comprehensive literature search, using MEDLINE, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and Embase databases, was conducted to identify randomized controlled trials that used single-dose intra-articular bupivacaine for postoperative pain. The relative risk (RR), weighted mean difference (WMD), and their corresponding 95 % confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated using RevMan(®) statistical software.

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