Evidence-Based Medicine in Orthopedic
John Christian Parsaoran Butarbutar*
Published: August 05, 2022
DOI: 10.55162/MCMS.03.061
Abstract
Orthopedic surgery is a vastly evolving field with an increasing number of publications introducing new implants and innovations each year.
Systematic reviews and metanalysis are also booming as it is accepted as the highest level of evidence hierarchy in prestigious orthopedic journal.
Orthopedic surgeons have been challenged by this large number of new publications to appraise this expansion and the increasing number of surgeons depending on systematic reviews as their primary sources. This is not without problems due to the fact that many surgeons do not have formal training in advanced statistics to critically interpret these results. The quality of systematic reviews can only be as good as the primary studies included. There is an increasing concern regarding the low quality of orthopedic primary studies as they may not hold significant clinical applications, which in the end will affect the quality of their systematic reviews and
meta-analysis [1-4].
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