Details of study design, quality assessment, mixed or athletic population included in each study and the definition of return to sport extracted from the text of each study, with the scale to measure activity level (when used)
| Authors and year | Study design | Quality assessment | Population | Return to sport evaluation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Noyes and Barber-Westin (1996)21 | Prospective observational study | 5 | Mixed | Sport activity preoperatively and at follow-up |
| Johnson et al (1996)22 | Prospective observational study | 5 | Mixed | Sport activity frequency preoperatively and postoperatively |
| Noyes and Barber-Westin (2001)23 | Prospective observational study | 3 | Mixed | Return to sports Cincinnati knee rating system |
| O'Shea and Shelbourne (2002)12 | Prospective observational study | 3 | Mixed | Return to sports |
| Taggart et al (2004)24 | Retrospective case series | 5 | Athletes | Return to same pre-injury sport Return to sport at any level |
| Carson et al (2004)25 | Retrospective case series | 3 | Mixed | Return to sports |
| O'Neill (2004)26 | Prospective observational study | 5 | Mixed | Return to same pre-injury sport Return to pivoting\cutting\contact |
| Grossman et al (2005)10 | Retrospective case series | 3 | Mixed | Return to same pre-injury activity and sport Return to collegiate sport |
| Thomas et al (2005)13 | Prospective comparative study | 4 | Mixed | Return to original level of sport activity |
| Ferretti et al (2006)27 | Prospective observational study | 6 | Athletes | Return to same pre-injury sports Return to sports |
| Garofalo et al (2006)28 | Prospective observational study | 6 | Athletes | Return to previous sport activity IKCD activity score |
| Noyes and Barber-Westin (2006)29 | Prospective observational study | 3 | Mixed | Return to sport Cincinnati knee rating system |
| Salmon et al (2006)30 | Prospective observational study | 4 | Mixed | IKDC activity score |
| Battaglia et al (2007)31 | Prospective observational study | 3 | Mixed | Return to sport IKDC activity score |
| Denti et al (2008)32 | Prospective observational study | 5 | Mixed | Return to same pre-injury sports |
| Diamantopoulos et al (2008)33 | Prospective observational study | 5 | Mixed | Return to same pre-injury sport activity |
| Wegrzyn et al (2009)34 | Retrospective case series | 4 | Mixed | Return to same pre-injury sports |
| Muneta et al (2010)35 | Retrospective comparative study | 5 | Mixed | Return to sport activity equal to pre-injury level |
| Reinhardt et al (2012)36 | Prospective observational study | 6 | Athletes | Return to same or higher activity\sport level IKDC activity score |
| Franceschi et al (2013)37 | Prospective observational study | 5 | Mixed | Return to pre-injury sport level Return to lower non-impact sports |
| Gifstad et al (2013)11 | Prospective observational study | 5 | Mixed | Return to same or better pre-injury sport level |
| Buda et al (2013)38 | Prospective observational study | 6 | Athletes | Return to same pre-injury sport level Sport resumption at lower level |
| Shelbourne et al (2014)39 | Prospective comparative study | 6 | Athletes | Return to same sport at previous level |
IKDC, International Knee Documentation Committee.