Arthroscopic and sports medicine science: Looking beyond the level of evidence (for now)

摘要

For now, arthroscopic and sports medicine scientists and clinicians may simply need to look beyond level of evidence when trying to answer clinical questions, because the truth is, studies of high levels of evidence are scant. As we said in January when celebrating the 2013 Level I Evidence prize, "Seriously?" As we noted, Arthroscopy published only 12 Level 1 evidence studies during the 12 months of 2013. To us, this seems like very few.