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Most RCTs in shoulder and elbow surgery are at high risk of bias and have fragile findings
January 2020
Most RCTs in shoulder and elbow surgery are at high risk of bias and have fragile findings
Study Type:Therapy
OE Level Evidence:1
Journal Level of Evidence:N/A
The fragility of findings of randomized controlled trials in shoulder and elbow surgery
J Shoulder Elbow Surg. 2019;28(12):2409-2417.Did you know you're eligible to earn 0.5 CME credits for reading this report? Click Here
Synopsis
The Fragility Index is a measure of how many opposite outcomes it would take for an RCT to go from having a statistically significant finding to being non-significant. The lower this number is, the less confident we can be in the results. This Index has gained popularity in recent years as a way to measure the overall confidence in findings of RCTs on a given topic. In this study, the authors asse...
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