Table 43a: GRADE Profile Should patients be treated with a preoperative exercise program before total hip replacement surgery?
| Quality Assessment | Summary of Findings | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of Subjects | Effect | |||||||||
| Comparison (Study) | Design | Quality | Consistency | Directness | Other modifying factors | Preop exercise (treatment) | No Preop exercise (control) | Relative (95%CI) | Quality | Outcome |
| Physical Functioning (measured by HSSK) | ||||||||||
| (Gocen et al. (32)) | RCT | Serious limitations* | 1 study | Some uncertainty in directness† | None | 29 | 30 | N/A | ⊕⊕⃝⃝ | Critical |
| Quality GRADE | High | Moderate (-1) | Moderate | Low (-1) | Low | Low | ||||
*
No treatment allocation concealment, probable selection bias
†
HSSK considered a suboptimal outcome measure