| Total knee replacement | Total hip replacement | Arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction | Arthroscopic meniscal repair of the knee | Arthroscopic partial meniscectomy of the knee | Lumbar spine decompression | Lumbar spine fusion | Total |
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Medline | 92 | 30 | 75 | 0 | 7 | 35 | 5 | 244 |
Embase | 109 | 22 | 23 | 6 | 27 | 157 | 4 | 348 |
Cochrane Library (CENTRAL) | 9 | 27 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 46 |
Bibliographies | 2 | |||||||
Total Records Identified | 640 | |||||||
Duplicates excluded | 113 | |||||||
Records screened title and abstracts | 527 | |||||||
Records excluded | 449 | |||||||
Full texts assessed for eligibility | 78 | |||||||
Records excluded | 52 | |||||||
Studies included in qualitative synthesis | 26 |