Table 2.
An adapted Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) summarization for review of capsule closure characteristics in hip arthroscopy
| Outcome | Limitations |
Inconsistency |
Indirectness |
Imprecision |
Publication bias |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I/II LoE∗ | Risk of bias | Outcomes | Outcomes | Sample size | Outcomes | |
| Imaging∗ | 1/3 | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| PROMs∗ | 0/17 | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Revision/failure∗ | 0/21 | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
∗
Studies with I/II level of evidence, imaging - magnetic resonance imaging evaluation, PROM - patient reported outcomes metrices, revision/failure - revision surgery or failure of the construct as reported in the included studies, ✓ - serious limitations, ✗- no serious limitations