Table 33a: GRADE Profile For question: Should patients be treated with a preoperative exercise program before TKR surgery?
| Quality Assessment | Summary of Findings | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comparison (Study) |
Design | Quality | Consistency | Directness | Other modifying factors |
No. of Subjects | Effect | Quality | Outcome | |
| Preop exercise |
No Preop exercise |
Relative (95% CI) |
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| Physical Functioning (measured by HSSK) | ||||||||||
| (Rodgers et al. and D’Lima et al.) |
RCT | Serious limitation* |
None | Some uncertainty† | None | 20 | 20 | Not possible to calculate |
⊕⊕⃝⃝ | Critical |
| Quality GRADE |
High | Moderate | Moderate | Low | Low | Low | ||||
*
No treatment allocation concealment or a priori sample size calculation (Rodgers et al. (30)).
†
HSSK is sub optimal outcome measure for physical function