A systematic review of economic evaluations of conservative treatments for chronic lower extremity musculoskeletal complaints.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The aim was to appraise and synthesize studies evaluating the clinical and cost effectiveness of conservative interventions for chronic lower extremity musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions and describe their characteristics, including the type of economic evaluation, primary outcomes and which conditions.

Methods

The search strategy related to economic evaluations of lower limb MSK conditions that used conservative therapies. Eight electronic databases were searched (CENTRAL, MEDLINE, PubMed, EMBASE, CINAHL, PEDro, NHSEED and Proquest), as were the reference lists from included articles. The quality of articles was appraised using a modified version of the economic evaluations' reporting checklist (economic) and The Cochrane Collaboration's tool for assessing risk of b

SUBMITTER: Fenocchi L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6649923 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature