- Subtitle:
- Submitted as: A placebo controlled randomised surgical trial assessing the effectiveness of arthroscopic sub-acromial decompression for shoulder pain (CSAW)
- Abstract:
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Background: Arthroscopic sub-acromial decompression (decompressing the sub-acromial space by removing bone spurs and soft tissue arthroscopically) is a common surgery for subacromial shoulder pain, but its effectiveness is uncertain. We did a study to assess its effectiveness and to investigate the mechanism for surgical decompression.
Methods: We did a multicentre, randomised, pragmatic, parallel group, placebo-controlled, three-group trial at 32 hospitals in the UK ...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Elsevier: Lancet Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Lancet Journal website
- Volume:
- 391
- Issue:
- 10118
- Pages:
- 329-338
- Publication date:
- 2017-11-20
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-08-29
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1474-547X
- ISSN:
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0140-6736
- Pubs id:
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pubs:727818
- URN:
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uri:84d7b8a9-3d97-486a-a3e9-2252ebbca039
- UUID:
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uuid:84d7b8a9-3d97-486a-a3e9-2252ebbca039
- Local pid:
- pubs:727818
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- Copyright holder:
- Beard et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
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Arthroscopic subacromial decompression for subacromial shoulder pain (CSAW): a multicentre, pragmatic, parallel group, placebo-controlled, three-group, randomised surgical trial
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