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Abimbola Afolabi, FRCSI, Dip Sports Med, MFSEM (UK)
Naas General Hospital, County Kildare, Ireland
MacAuley D, Best TM. Evidence-based sports medicine. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007.
Evidence-based sports medicine is aimed primarily at sports-medicine practitioners and those keen on using evidence-based information in the management of sports-related injuries. The choice of topics and the immense effort that went into the search for appropriate materials is commendable.
Almost every reputable searching source has been used, including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, the Cochrane Collaboration, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, Medline (PubMed interface), AMED, ISI Web of Science, CINAHL, Sport Discus, and many more. Methodological quality and data extraction were stringently rated using tools such as the PEDro scale and the Amsterdam-Maastricht Consensus List for Quality Assessment. Several studies were eliminated or severely criticised because they were insufficiently powered or did not use a control. In some cases, there was a paucity in the available evidence, and levels 4 and 5 evidence was used to answer
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