Table 4.
Overall Quality of Evidence According to GRADE Assessmenta
| No. of Patients/Studies | Certainty Assessment | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Risk of Bias | Inconsistency | Indirectness | Imprecision | Publication Bias | Overall Certainty of Evidenceb | ||
| IKDC score | 287/4 (observational) | Not serious | Not serious | Not serious | Seriousc | None | Very low |
| Lysholm score | 287/4 (observational) | Not serious | Not serious | Not serious | Seriousc | None | Very low |
| Tegner score | 157/2 (observational) | Not serious | Not serious | Not serious | Seriousc | None | Very low |
| Knee laxity | 202/3 (observational) | Not serious | Not serious | Not serious | Seriousc | None | Very low |
aGRADE, Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation; IKDC, International Knee Documentation Committee.
bOverall certainty of evidence: very low, low, moderate, and strong.
cDid not meet optimal information size criterion.