Routine knee arthroscopic surgery for the painful knee in middle-aged and old patients--time to abandon ship.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. Arthroscopic meniscal surgery: a national society treatment guideline and consensus statement.The bone & joint journal · 2019
   Guideline
2. Efficacy of dexmedetomidine for pain management in knee arthroscopy: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Medicine · 2017
   Pooled it
3. A comparison of adductor canal block before and after thigh tourniquet during knee arthroscopy: a randomized, blinded study.Korean journal of anesthesiology · 2021
   Trial
4. Low-value care in musculoskeletal health care: Is there a way forward?Pain practice : the official journal of World Institute of Pain · 2022
   Review
5. Incidence Rates of Surgery After Knee MRI: Association According to Referring Physician Type and Patient's Age and Sex.Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine · 2021
   Article
6. Is there a reason to challenge our current practice in children's forearm fractures?Acta orthopaedica · 2021
   Article
7. The orthopaedic community does not oppose the non-surgical treatment of degenerative meniscal lesions.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2021
   Article
8. Non-Surgical Treatment of Knee Osteoarthritis: Multidisciplinary Italian Consensus on Best Practice.Therapeutics and clinical risk management · 2021
   Article
9. Inappropriate use of arthroscopic meniscal surgery in degenerative knee disease.Acta orthopaedica · 2017
   Article

Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Knee arthroscopies: who gets them, what does the radiologist report, and what does the surgeon find? An evaluation from southern Sweden.2016
• Comment on
  Changes in rates of arthroscopy due to degenerative knee disease and traumatic meniscal tears in Finland and Sweden.2016

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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