Harms Reporting Is Inadequate in Systematic Reviews Regarding Hip Arthroscopy

Ref ID 900
First Author C. Peters
Journal ARTHROSCOPY, SPORTS MEDICINE & REHABILITATION
Year Of Publishing 2023
URL https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666061X22001687?via%3Dihub
Keywords • Orthopaedic
• Low reporting quality
• Musculoskeletal
• Surgery
• Harms
Problem(s) • Selective reporting of harms / safety / adverse events / side effects
• Low methodological (AMSTAR) quality
Article Type Empirical
Article Subtype Cross-sectional survey/Methodological systematic review
First Author Country United States
Checklists • AMSTAR 2
Aim To investigate the quality of harms reporting in systematic reviews regarding hip arthroscopy in the current literature.
Level of Investigation Descriptive
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%).
Number of systematic reviews included 82
Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed 2151
Treatment impacted No
Treatment impacted description
Interpretation impacted Not Applicable
Interpretation impacted description