Table 3.

Score improvement per technique

Technique	Questionnaire	N (patients)	References	Mean pre-op score (SD)	Mean post-op score (SD)	Mean score improvement (SD)	p value
Anatomic repair	AOFAS	119	Hu et al. [20] Maffuli et al. [32]	62.1 (8.0)	93.8 (2.7)	31.8 (5.3)	p < 0.0005
	Kaikkonen	38	Maffuli et al. [32]	45.0 (30–70)	90.0 (65–100)	45 (*)	p < 0.001
	Karlsson	121	Cho et al. [9] Hu et al. [20]	54.2 (6.3)	95.1 (3.6)	40.9 (2.9)	p < 0.0005
Anatomic reconstruction	AOFAS	128	Caprio et al. [8] Hua et al. [21] Ibrahim et al. [23] Xu et al. [48]	53.2 (10.6)	90.2 (10.9)	37.0 (6.8)	p < 0.0005
	Karlsson	35	Hua et al. [21]	38.5 (3.2)	90.1 (7.8)	51.6 (*)	p < 0.0005
Tenodesis	AOFAS	10	Ventura et al. [47]	67.0 (15.4)	86.5 (12)	19.5 (*)	p < 0.001
	Kaikkonen	20	Ng and Das De [34]	39.8 (NR)	89.6 (NR)	49.8 (*)	NR
	Karlsson	39	Kim et al. [24] Ventura et al. [47]	56.0 (3.8)	85.3 (2.5)	29.4 (6.3)	p < 0.0005
	Tegner	51	Baray et al. [3] Schepers et al. [39] Ventura et al. [47]	5.8 (1.4)	6.6 (2.0)	0.8 (0.7)	p < 0.0005

NR not reported, SD standard deviation

* Could not be calculated/unknown