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KCE reports vol. 40 APPENDICES Physiotherapy 79
E. DETAILED SEARCH PROCEDURES FOR TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT
REHABILITATION
1. MEDLINE (PUBMED; MAY 2006)
Search for total knee arthroplasty (free term) AND rehabilitation (Mesh term); no limits: 140 references
found.
- Limit previous search to practice guidelines : no reference found,
- Limit to meta-analysis : 4 references found, 1 Cochrane Review on Continuous passive motion
following total knee arthroplasty (76); 3 references discarded as not corresponding to the topic,
- Limit to Reviews : 61 references found; 57 discarded as not relevant, 1 Cochrane Review already
found; the remaining were retrieved,
- Limit to RCTs : 75 references found; 59 discarded as not relevant; the remaining were retrieved.
Search for total knee replacement (free term) AND rehabilitation (Mesh term); no limits: 131 references
found; same references as in the previous search. No new relevant reference identified.
2. PEDRO (MAY 2006)
Search for total knee arthroplasty in the advanced search window: 50 records found.
- Practice guidelines: no record found,
- Systematic reviews: 4 records found. The Cochrane Review previously retrieved and 2 RCTs
included in the Cochrane review,
- Clinical trials: 46 records founds ; 12 discarded as not relevant; the 24 remaining had previously been
found.
3. CENTRE FOR REVIEWS AND DISSEMINATION (MAY 2006)
Search for total knee arthroplasty AND rehabilitation in all CRD databases: 7 records previously found.
4. COCHRANE REVIEWS (MAY 2006)
Search by topic: total knee arthroplasty> rehabilitation > 7 records found. Only two relevant to rehabilitation
following total knee arthroplasty: one previously found and the following one retrieved:
Pre-operative education for hip or knee replacement. Cochrane Database of systematic reviews, 2004
5. NATIONAL GUIDELINE CLEARINGHOUSE (MAY 2006)
Search for total knee arthroplasty : 17 records found; only one corresponding to the topic:
National Institute of Health Consensus Development Panel on Total Knee Replacement , 2004
6. ANAES, KNGF, SSMG, WVVH, (MAY 2006)
No reference found.
7. ADDITIONAL SEARCH IN EMBASE (JUNE 2006)
No new relevant reference found.