| 1. | Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip/ |
| 2. | Hip Prosthesis/ |
| 3. | ((joint* or hip*) adj3 (surger* or replace* or prosthe* or endoprosthe* or implant* or artificial or arthroplast* or hemiarthroplast*)).ti,ab. |
| 4. | 1 or 3 |
| 5. | letter/ |
| 6. | editorial/ |
| 7. | news/ |
| 8. | exp historical article/ |
| 9. | Anecdotes as Topic/ |
| 10. | comment/ |
| 11. | case report/ |
| 12. | (letter or comment*).ti. |
| 13. | or/5-12 |
| 14. | randomized controlled trial/ or random*.ti,ab. |
| 15. | 13 not 14 |
| 16. | animals/ not humans/ |
| 17. | exp Animals, Laboratory/ |
| 18. | exp Animal Experimentation/ |
| 19. | exp Models, Animal/ |
| 20. | exp Rodentia/ |
| 21. | (rat or rats or mouse or mice).ti. |
| 22. | or/15-21 |
| 23. | 4 not 22 |
| 24. | limit 23 to English language |
| 25. | ((surgery or surgical or hip) adj4 approach*).ti,ab. |
| 26. | (direct adj2 (anterior or superior)).ti,ab. |
| 27. | (smithpeters?n or smith-peters?n).ti,ab. |
| 28. | (anterolateral* or watson-jones).ti,ab. |
| 29. | (posterior or moore or southern).ti,ab. |
| 30. | (supercapsular or percutaneously or superpath or path).ti,ab. |
| 31. | or/25-30 |
| 32. | 24 and 31 |
| 33. | randomized controlled trial.pt. |
| 34. | controlled clinical trial.pt. |
| 35. | randomi#ed.ti,ab. |
| 36. | placebo.ab. |
| 37. | randomly.ti,ab. |
| 38. | Clinical Trials as topic.sh. |
| 39. | trial.ti. |
| 40. | or/33-39 |
| 41. | Meta-Analysis/ |
| 42. | exp Meta-Analysis as Topic/ |
| 43. | (meta analy* or metanaly* or metaanaly* or meta regression).ti,ab. |
| 44. | ((systematic* or evidence*) adj3 (review* or overview*)).ti,ab. |
| 45. | (reference list* or bibliograph* or hand search* or manual search* or relevant journals).ab. |
| 46. | (search strategy or search criteria or systematic search or study selection or data extraction).ab. |
| 47. | (search* adj4 literature).ab. |
| 48. | (medline or pubmed or cochrane or embase or psychlit or psyclit or psychinfo or psycinfo or cinahl or science citation index or bids or cancerlit).ab. |
| 49. | cochrane.jw. |
| 50. | ((multiple treatment* or indirect or mixed) adj2 comparison*).ti,ab. |
| 51. | or/41-50 |
| 52. | Epidemiologic studies/ |
| 53. | Observational study/ |
| 54. | exp Cohort studies/ |
| 55. | (cohort adj (study or studies or analys* or data)).ti,ab. |
| 56. | ((follow up or observational or uncontrolled or non randomi#ed or epidemiologic*) adj (study or studies or data)).ti,ab. |
| 57. | ((longitudinal or retrospective or prospective or cross sectional) and (study or studies or review or analys* or cohort* or data)).ti,ab. |
| 58. | Controlled Before-After Studies/ |
| 59. | Historically Controlled Study/ |
| 60. | Interrupted Time Series Analysis/ |
| 61. | (before adj2 after adj2 (study or studies or data)).ti,ab. |
| 62. | or/53-62 |
| 63. | exp case control study/ |
| 64. | case control*.ti,ab. |
| 65. | or/64-65 |
| 66. | 63 or 66 |
| 67. | Cross-sectional studies/ |
| 68. | (cross sectional and (study or studies or review or analys* or cohort* or data)).ti,ab. |
| 69. | or/68-69 |
| 70. | 63 or 70 |
| 71. | 63 or 66 or 70 |
| 72. | 32 and (40 or 51 or 71) |
From: Evidence review for hip replacement approach
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