ArticlePatient safety in surgery2020
Assessing the level of evidence in the orthopaedic literature, 2013-2018: a review of 3449 articles in leading orthopaedic journals.
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- Evolution in the Use of Statistical Testing in the Field of Orthopedics From 1993 to 2023.Cureus · 2024Review
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- Current Requirements and Attitudes Toward Research: A Survey-Based Analysis of Orthopedic Surgery Programs.Cureus · 2022Article
- Trends in Level of Evidence of Systematic Reviews in Sports Medicine, 2010-2020 : A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine · 2022Review
- Bibliometric Analysis of Top 100 Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses in Orthopaedic Literature.Indian journal of orthopaedics · 2022Review
- Declining Quality of Systematic Reviews in Orthopaedic Sports Medicine: An Updated Systematic Review.Arthroscopy, sports medicine, and rehabilitation · 2022Review
- Research methodologic quality varies significantly by subspecialty: An analysis of AAOS meeting abstracts.Journal of clinical orthopaedics and trauma · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundIn biomedical research, level of evidence (LOE) indicates the quality of a study. Recent studies evaluating orthopaedic trauma literature between 1998 and 2013 have indicated that LOE in this field has improved. The objective of this study was to determine the validity of one such study by 1) comparing our results and how they relate to more recent years of publications; and 2) assessing how our findings may be used to estimate future changes.
methodsA total of 3449 articles published from 2013 to 2018 in
resultsThe percentage of total high-level (level I or II) trauma and nontrauma articles published in JOT, JBJS-Am, and CORR decreased from 2013 to 2018 (trauma 23.1 to 19.2%,
conclusionsBased on our results we cannot validate the findings of previous studies as we found the overall LOE of both trauma and nontrauma orthopaedic literature has decreased in recent years. JBJS-Am published a greater percentage of high-level studies than did JOT and CORR. Although the number and percentage of high-level studies published in JOT increased during the study period, it still lagged behind JBJS-Am and CORR.
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