Interventional procedure overview of minimally invasive fusionless posterior-approach surgery to correct idiopathic scoliosis in children and young people
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Methods
NICE identified studies and reviews relevant to minimally invasive fusionless posterior-approach surgery to correct idiopathic scoliosis in children and young people from the medical literature. The following databases were searched between the date they started to 21.07.2022: MEDLINE, PREMEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Library and other databases. Trial registries and the internet were also searched (see the literature search strategy). Relevant published studies identified during consultation or resolution that are published after this date may also be considered for inclusion.
The following inclusion criteria were applied to the abstracts identified by the literature search.
Publication type: clinical studies were included with emphasis on identifying good quality studies. Abstracts were excluded if they did not report clinical outcomes. Reviews, editorials, and laboratory or animal studies, were also excluded and so were conference abstracts, because of the difficulty of appraising study methodology, unless they reported specific adverse events that not available in the published literature.
Patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.
Intervention or test: minimally invasive fusionless deformity correction surgery.
Outcome: articles were retrieved if the abstract contained information relevant to the safety, efficacy, or both.
If selection criteria could not be determined from the abstracts the full paper was retrieved.
Potentially relevant studies not included in the main evidence summary are listed in the section on other relevant studies.
Find out more about how NICE selects the evidence for the committee.
Databases | Date searched | Version/files |
MEDLINE (Ovid) | 21/07/2022 | 1946 to July 20, 2022 |
MEDLINE In-Process (Ovid) | 21/07/2022 | 1946 to July 20, 2022 |
MEDLINE Epubs ahead of print (Ovid) | 21/07/2022 | July 20, 2022 |
EMBASE (Ovid) | 21/07/2022 | 1974 to July 20, 2022 |
EMBASE Conference (Ovid) | 21/07/2022 | 1974 to July 20, 2022 |
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews – CDSR (Cochrane Library) | 21/07/2022 | Issue 7 of 12, July 2022 |
Cochrane Central Database of Controlled Trials – CENTRAL (Cochrane Library) | 21/07/2022 | Issue 7 of 12, July 2022 |
International HTA database (INAHTA) | 21/07/2022 | - |
The following search strategy was used to identify papers in MEDLINE. A similar strategy was used to identify papers in other databases.
The MEDLINE search strategy was translated for use in the other sources.
1 Scoliosis/ 20124
2 scoliosis.tw. 19986
3 (Skeletal* adj4 immatur*).tw. 1864
4 or/1-3 26245
5 (Self adj4 adjust* adj4 rod*).tw. 0
6 (Fusionless or (Non adj4 fusion*)).tw,kw. 1669
7 (Deform* adj4 correct* adj4 (surger* or device* or system*)).tw. 754
8 ((Posterior adj4 dynamic adj4 deformity adj4 correction) or PDDC).tw,kw. 22
9 (motion adj4 sparing adj4 posterior adj4 device).tw. 1
10 or/5-9 2437
11 4 and 10 347
12 ((Minimally adj4 Invasive adj4 Deformity adj4 Correction adj4 system) or MIDCS).tw. 1
13 (MID-C adj4 (correction or system)).tw. 1
14 ApiFix.tw. 3
15 or/11-14 348
16 Animals/ not Humans/ 5004195
17 15 not 16 305
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