Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/11499/5310
Title: Do orthopaedic journals provide high-quality evidence for clinical practice?
Authors: Kiter, Esat
Karatosun, V.
Günal, I.
Keywords: Evidence-based medicine
Journals
Meta-analyses
Orthopaedics
Randomized controlled trials
arthroplasty
article
classification
clinical trial
controlled clinical trial
data base
evidence based medicine
hip arthroplasty
knee arthroplasty
medical information
medical literature
medical practice
MEDLINE
meta analysis
orthopedics
priority journal
publication
randomized controlled trial
SciSearch
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Abstract: 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 main source of scientific information. Methods: Using the National Library of Medicine Medline database, all randomized controlled trials and meta-analyses from 1966 to 1999 were retrieved from the journals indexed in the core list of the Science Citation Index in 1999, dedicated primarily to orthopaedics. The abstracts of the articles were reviewed independently by each author and classified by the year, journal name and subject. Results: The total number of articles was 36,293, of which only 671 were randomized controlled trials (1.85%) and 12 were meta-analyses (0.03%). Although there was a progressively increasing trend for randomized controlled trials, more than half of them (81.9%) were published in four journals. Of the randomized controlled trials, 66% was about arthroplasty, and hip and knee arthroplasties covered 90.7%. Conclusion: Although the number of randomized controlled trials and meta-analyses is tending to increase, the conclusion of this study is that the high-quality evidence provided by the major orthopaedic journals is quite low, and more randomized controlled trials and meta-analyses are needed for evidence-based orthopaedic practice.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/11499/5310
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00402-003-0501-4
ISSN: 0936-8051
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