Table 2.

Inclusion/exclusion criteria for screening titles and abstracts

Inclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria

Full-text original articles English language Articles concerning OA secondary to the following diseases: psoriatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, juvenile idiopathic arthritis, spondyloarthropathies, systemic lupus erythematosus, systemic sclerosis and Sjögren’s syndrome Providing relevant information (e.g. response rate or other measures of effectiveness) Study design: any

Abstract-only, letters to editor, reviews, case reports Papers that do not deal with intra-articular injection in patients with osteoarthritis secondary to inflammatory rheumatic diseases When multiple articles were based on the same study population, we included only the most complete (or recent) one