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ArticleBritish journal of sports medicine2020

When taking a step back is a veritable leap forward. Reversing decades of arthroscopy for managing joint pain: five reasons that could explain declining rates of common arthroscopic surgeries.

Clare L Ardern, Teemu Paatela, Ville Mattila, Simo Taimela, Teppo L N Järvinen

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Article in British journal of sports medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. 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
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  6. Knee arthroscopy: evidence for a targeted approach.British journal of sports medicine · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Clare L ArdernSport & Exercise Medicine Research Centre, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8102-3631
Teemu PaatelaFinnish Centre for Evidence-Based Orthopaedics (FICEBO), Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland.
Ville MattilaDepartment of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland.
Simo TaimelaFinnish Centre for Evidence-Based Orthopaedics (FICEBO), Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6755-2983
Teppo L N JärvinenFinnish Centre for Evidence-Based Orthopaedics (FICEBO), Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland teppo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3713-956X

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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ArthralgiaArthroscopyHumansJoint DiseasesMedical FutilityPain Managementarthroscopic surgeryevidence basedimplementationknowledge translationoveruse

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PMID33115728
PMCPMC7606570

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