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and thereby inform clinical practice. They are increasingly seen as providing the most reliable conclusions about treatments. Another important role of systematic reviews is to highlight where no reliable evidence exists (for example only level 3 or 4
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prosthesis, resection prosthesis, prosthesis–arthrodesis and total femur) ( 3 ). For patients with PJI, it is necessary to avoid dead-end clinical situations, as transfemoral amputation or hip disarticulation are associated with a catastrophic functional
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Introduction Little is known about the clinical evidence used to establish the safety and performance of medical devices before and after market access in Europe. Unlike medicines in Europe and in the USA, and medical devices that are subject
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Introduction Osteochondral lesions of the talus (OLT) affect the talar dome with varying involvement of the articular cartilage and subchondral bone. In 2017, the working group ‘Clinical Tissue Regeneration’ of the German Society of
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scientific department with medical expertise in each major clinical field. High-risk implantable medical devices are essential for clinical care. Scrutiny of clinical evidence before their market access is also essential. Uncertainty about the standards
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understand the organizational network of a research team. Fig. 1 offers clinicians a brief overview of how a team network works through dynamic interaction. Fig. 1 Network of a team. Note . CRA, clinical research associate; CRO, contract research
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Definition, clinical relevance, clinical picture, diagnosis and the treatment of the elbow synovial plica syndrome have brought some confusion. The literature in the scope of medical journals is rare. Even the terminology has not been uniformed
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clinical data. The advent of minimally-invasive techniques such as laparoscopic surgery, or - more recently - robotics, have completely changed surgeons’ approach to intervention. There is a need for greater understanding of the specific anatomy in order
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methods. 1 While some individuals may maintain reasonable function after non-operative treatment of a ruptured DBT, biomechanical and clinical studies suggest that most individuals benefit from surficial repair or reconstruction. 2 Over the last
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properties leads to uncertainty as to how to present (on the part of the applicant firm) and assess (on the part of the notified body and the clinical study surgeon) the methods and results of the pre-clinical and clinical evaluation ( 1 ). This ‘regulatory