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- Title
Quality of prospective controlled randomized trials. Analysis of trials of treatment for lateral epicondylitis as an example.
- Authors
Cowan, James; Lozano-Calderón, Santiago; Ring, David
- Abstract
The Oxford Levels of Evidence are now routinely assigned at many orthopaedic journals. One disadvantage of this approach is that study designs with a higher level of evidence may be given greater weight than the overall quality of the study merits. In other words, there is no guarantee that research is scientifically valid simply because a more sophisticated study design was employed. The aim of this study was to review Level-I and II therapeutic studies on lateral epicondylitis to measure variation in quality among the highest-level study designs.
- Publication
The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume, 2007, Vol 89, Issue 8, p1693
- ISSN
0021-9355
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.2106/JBJS.F.00858