Patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis |
Patients who underwent surgery |
Patients who underwent bracing as treatment, or put under observation with or without exercise |
Studies including patients with other types of scoliosis, e.g. degenerative, congenital |
Studied one or more radiological morphological predictors |
Specialized CT, MRI, and electromyography predictors not routinely assessed, e.g. electromyography, neurological factors |
Studies with a clearly defined outcome of progression |
Studies reporting neither p-values nor odds ratios with confidence intervals |
Longitudinal studies in English |
Model development studies without identification of individual predictors |
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Case series, case reports, conference summaries, cross-sectional studies, unpublished literature, commentaries, and reviews |