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Sowah D, Balat F, Straube S. Work-related outcomes in randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled trials in osteoarthritis - are they adequately reported in journal publications? A systematic review. J Occup Med Toxicol. 2018;13:32doi: 10.1186/s12995-018-0215-8.
Sowah, D., Balat, F., & Straube, S. (2018). Work-related outcomes in randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled trials in osteoarthritis - are they adequately reported in journal publications? A systematic review. Journal of occupational medicine and toxicology (London, England), 1332. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12995-018-0215-8
Sowah, Daniel, et al. "Work-related outcomes in randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled trials in osteoarthritis - are they adequately reported in journal publications? A systematic review." Journal of occupational medicine and toxicology (London, England) vol. 13 (2018): 32. doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12995-018-0215-8
Sowah D, Balat F, Straube S. Work-related outcomes in randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled trials in osteoarthritis - are they adequately reported in journal publications? A systematic review. J Occup Med Toxicol. 2018 Oct 20;13:32. doi: 10.1186/s12995-018-0215-8. eCollection 2018. PMID: 30377437; PMCID: PMC6195965.
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J Occup Med Toxicol. 2018 Oct 20;13:32. doi: 10.1186/s12995-018-0215-8. eCollection 2018.

Work-related outcomes in randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled trials in osteoarthritis - are they adequately reported in journal publications? A systematic review.

Journal of occupational medicine and toxicology (London, England)

Daniel Sowah, Flora Balat, Sebastian Straube

Affiliations

  1. Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, 5-30 University Terrace, 8303-112 Street, Edmonton, AB T6G 2T4 Canada.

PMID: 30377437 PMCID: PMC6195965 DOI: 10.1186/s12995-018-0215-8

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Osteoarthritis (OA) has a high prevalence in Western societies and can affect an individual's life in a number of domains, including work. In our experience, treatment trials on OA, however, rarely report work-related outcomes. Here we conducted a systematic review to assess the reporting of work-related outcomes in randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled trials in OA. Our systematic review also compared two search strategies for identifying eligible publications, one where work-related terms were included in the database search string (A) and one where this was not the case and work-related outcomes were identified by searches of full text Portable Document Formats (PDFs) (B). Search strategy A would conventionally be used and would only identify publications where work-related terms were mentioned in the title or abstract. Search strategy B presents the innovation of full text PDF searching and would identify publications were work-related terms were reported in the full text, regardless of whether they are mentioned in the title and abstract or not. We hypothesize that search strategy B identifies more relevant publications than search strategy A.

METHODS: Electronic database searching was performed in Medline (Pubmed) from database inception to February 23, 2017 to identify peer-reviewed articles of randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled treatment trials in OA of the hand, hip, or knee, available as full-text PDFs. For search strategy A, search terms to identify work-related outcomes were included in the database search string, while search strategy B did not have these terms included in the database search string, but instead involved full text PDF searching. We included English language articles only and only those articles where searchable PDFs were available, to enable a comparison between search strategies A and B. Additionally, included studies also needed to report on pain intensity in relation to the work-related outcomes.

RESULTS: Search strategy A yielded 50 hits combined for hand, hip or knee OA that mentioned some work-related concept in the title or abstract; 12 articles had to be excluded because they were not available as searchable PDFs. Screening of the remaining 38 articles resulted in only two articles that satisfied our inclusion criteria. Search strategy B yielded 986 hits, out of which 201 articles were excluded because searchable full text PDFs were not available. PDF full text searching and further screening resulted in 10 articles that were considered eligible for our review.

CONCLUSIONS: Work-related outcomes are rarely reported in journal publication on randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled trials of hand, hip or knee OA. Searching full text PDFs yields more eligible articles than searching titles and abstracts only.

Keywords: Osteoarthritis; Search strategies; Systematic review; Treatment trials; Work-related health outcomes

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