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Intra‐articular hyaluronic acid injection in treating knee osteoarthritis: assessing risk of bias in systematic reviews with ROBIS tool
Author(s) -
Xing Dan,
Wang Bin,
Zhang Wei,
Yang Ziyi,
Hou Yunfei,
Chen Yaolong,
Lin Jianhao
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international journal of rheumatic diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.795
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1756-185X
pISSN - 1756-1841
DOI - 10.1111/1756-185x.13192
Subject(s) - medicine , osteoarthritis , cochrane library , hyaluronic acid , systematic review , grading (engineering) , physical therapy , medline , quality assessment , quality of evidence , meta analysis , alternative medicine , pathology , external quality assessment , civil engineering , political science , law , anatomy , engineering
Intra-articular injection of hyaluronic acid (HA) is a common, yet controversial therapeutic option in treating knee osteoarthritis (OA). The purpose of the present study was to assess the risk of bias (RoB) of systematic reviews (SRs) and to summarize available evidence of HA in treating knee OA.