How to assess applicability and methodological quality of comparative studies of operative interventions in orthopedic trauma surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

It is challenging to generate and subsequently implement high-quality evidence in surgical practice. A first step would be to grade the strengths and weaknesses of surgical evidence and appraise risk of bias and applicability. Here, we described items that are common to different risk-of-bias tools. We explained how these could be used to assess comparative operative intervention studies in orthopedic trauma surgery, and how these relate to applicability of results.

Methods

We extracted information from the Cochrane risk-of-bias-2 (RoB-2) tool, Risk Of Bias In Non-randomised Studies-of Interventions tool (ROBINS-I), and Methodological Index for Non-Randomized Studies (MINORS) criteria and derived a concisely formulated set of items with signaling questions tailored t

SUBMITTER: Luijken K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9712361 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature