Harms Reporting Is Inadequate in Systematic Reviews Regarding Hip Arthroscopy

Ref ID 900
First Author C. Peters
Journal ARTHROSCOPY, SPORTS MEDICINE, AND REHABILITATION
Year Of Publishing 2023
URL https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666061X22001687?via%3Dihub
Keywords Harms
Orthopaedic
Surgery
Musculoskeletal
Low reporting quality
Problem(s) Selective reporting of harms / safety / adverse events / side effects
Low methodological (AMSTAR) quality
Number of systematic reviews included 82
Summary of Findings From 82 included systematic reviews of hip arthroscopy indexed across MEDLINE (PubMed and Ovid), EMBASE, Epistemonikos, and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews in May 2022. Of these, 37 (45.1%) reported under 50% of the harms criteria and 9 (10.9%) did not report harms at all. The methodological quality (AMSTAR-2) ratings were critically low in 60 reviews (73.2%) and low in 17 (20.7%).
Did the article find that the problem(s) led to qualitative changes in interpretation of the results? Not Applicable
Are the methods of the article described in enough detail to replicate the study? Yes