OP19 Clinical Effectiveness Of Glucocorticoids For The Treatment Of Knee Osteoarthritis – Systematic Review And Longitudinal Meta-Analysis
Magdalena Moshi, Alvin Atlas, John Rathbone, Danielle Stringer, Thomas Vreugdenburg · 2025
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Moshi and co-authors pool the trials on steroid injections for knee osteoarthritis. The shots are widely used, but reports of their value conflict. Searching three databases, the team gathers sixteen randomized trials with 1,522 patients and follows pain, function, quality of life, care use, and harms across a full year using a longitudinal meta-analysis.
Pain eases slightly at one month and then the advantage fades; by three months it is gone. Function and quality of life never improve meaningfully. Care use dips briefly at one month, and no serious safety problems appear. The authors conclude the injections buy short relief only, a fact they say should anchor decisions about using them.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Magdalena Moshi, Alvin Atlas, John Rathbone, Danielle Stringer, Thomas Vreugdenburg |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |