A Quantitative Systematic Review of Clinical Outcome Measure Use in Peripheral Nerve Injury of the Upper Limb.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Peripheral nerve injury (PNI) is common, leading to reduced function, pain, and psychological impact. Treatment has not progressed partly due to inability to compare outcomes between centers managing PNI. Numerous outcome measures exist but there is no consensus on which outcome measures to use nor when.

Objective

To perform a systematic review in order to describe and classify outcome measures used in PNI.

Methods

A search of Ovid Medline, Ovid Embase, Allied and Complementary Medicine Database (AMED), and CENTRAL (Cochrane Clinical Trials) was conducted. Randomized control trials (RCTs), cohort studies, and case-controlled and case series (≥5 participants) published from inception of the database until 2019 investigating adult patients with a traumatic up

SUBMITTER: Murphy RNA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8203424 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature