Review article (meta-analysis)Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Part II: Effectiveness of Surgical Treatments—A Systematic Review
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Search Strategy
A search of relevant systematic reviews on CTS was performed in the Cochrane Library. In addition, relevant review publications and RCTs in PubMed, EMBASE, CINAHL, and PEDro were searched (1) for interventions included in the systematic reviews from the date of the search strategy of the review up to January 2010 (ie, recent RCTs) and (2) from the beginning of the database up to January 2010 (ie, additional RCTs).
Keywords related to the disorder such as “carpal tunnel syndrome,” “median nerve
Characteristics of the Included Studies
The initial literature search resulted in the identification of 4 systematic reviews from the Cochrane library and 47 reviews (7 from PubMed, 29 from EMBASE, 11 from CINAHL). Further, we found 750 RCTs (241 from PubMed, 276 from EMBASE, 177 from CINAHL, 56 from PEDro). Finally, after selection based on the content of the titles, abstracts, and full text of the references, 2 Cochrane reviews and 25 RCTs (22 from PubMed, 2 from EMBASE, 1 from PEDro, none from CINAHL) met our inclusion criteria.
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