Background: Results from systematic reviews and meta-analyses, which have the highest
level of evidence (Level I), often drive clinical decision-making and health policy. Often …

Background: Properly designed and conducted systematic reviews can reliably produce
valid pooled treatment-effect estimates and are an important resource for clinical decision …

Background: Statistical analysis of systematic reviews allows the results of previous studies
to be combined and synthesized to assess the overall health effect of the intervention in …

Meta-analyses and systematic reviews are increasingly published in the medical and
surgical literature and are proliferating in the orthopaedic literature as well.''A systematic …

Background: As the number of studies in the literature is increasing, orthopaedic surgeons
highly depend on meta-analyses as their primary source of scientific evidence. The …

Background: The selective reporting of a subset of the outcomes that had been originally
reported to a registry is a potential threat to the validity of evidence-based medicine. The …

The systematic literature review is a powerful tool for summarizing and evaluating current
knowledge related to a specific research question. Systematic reviews have many …

Systematic reviews (SRs) with complete reporting or rigorous methods can lead to less
biased recommendations and decisions. A comprehensive analysis of the epidemiological …

Background In the hierarchy of research designs, randomized controlled trials and meta-
analyses are considered to be evidence of the highest grade, and scientific journals are the …

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 …