Purpose To perform a systematic review that determines the percentage of published
orthopedic surgery and sports medicine systematic reviews and meta-analyses that have a …

Background: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are considered the gold standard in
evidence-based medicine. Underpowered RCTs that describe comparative outcomes …

Background Musculoskeletal conditions require particular management skills. Identification
of interventions which are effective in equipping general practitioners (GPs) with such …

Despite a substantial contribution to the global burden of disease, musculoskeletal
conditions are under-represented in clinical research, and that which is performed is often …

Systematic reviews have become increasingly popular across the allied health, education,
and disability and rehabilitation fields. Unlike traditional narrative reviews, systematic …

To assess the interrater reliability, validity, and interinstrument agreement of the three
quality rating instruments for observational studies. Interrater reliability, criterion validity …

Study Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Objectives: To conduct a systematic
review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) in the orthopaedic manual …

Objective To evaluate whether abstracts of low back pain reviews contained spin, whether
these abstracts consistently represented the full text, and whether the spin in these abstracts …

Background Assessing methodological quality of primary studies is an essential component
of systematic reviews. Following a systematic review which used a domain based system …

Method Guidelines for Systematic Reviews in the Cochrane Col... : Spine Method
Guidelines for Systematic Reviews in the Cochrane Collaboration Back Review Group for …