Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology
Table 1 AMQPP assessment tool
From: The natural course of shoulder instability and treatment trends: a systematic review
AMQPP | Yes | No | Not clear |
|---|---|---|---|
1. Is the study original? | |||
2. Does the study make clear what it is about? (hypothesis clearly stated, subject recruited, inclusion and exclusion criteria, circumstances) | |||
3. Is the design of the study sensible? (What specific intervention or other manoeuver was considered and compared? How was the outcome measured?) | |||
4. Does the study deal with preliminary statistical questions? (the size of the sample, the duration of follow-up, the completeness of follow-up) | |||
5. Does the study avoid or minimise systematic bias? | |||
6. Was assessment blind? (Did the people who assessed the outcome know which group the patient they were assessing was allocated to?) |