Outcome of surgical repair of adult digital nerve injury: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

A systematic review to assess the evidence supporting surgical repair of digital nerve injury versus no repair in adults in terms of clinical outcomes.

Design

A Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses-compliant systematic review with methodology based on the Cochrane Handbook of Systematic Reviews of Interventions.

Data sources

Databases included OvidMEDLINE, EMBASE, AMED, clinicaltrials.gov and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, searched from inception until 10 November 2018.

Eligibility criteria

Adult digital nerve injury in which either direct repair or no repair was undertaken and an outcome measure was recorded.

Data extraction and synthesis

Study data extracted included demographics, injury type and e

SUBMITTER: Dunlop RLE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6429897 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature