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Letters |1 January 2013

Viscosupplementation for Osteoarthritis of the Knee

Federico Navarro-Sarabia, MD; Gabriel Herrero-Beaumont, MD

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  • From Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena, Sevilla, and Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid, Spain.

    Potential Conflicts of Interest: Drs. Navarro-Sarabia and Herrero-Beaumont were authors of the AMELIA (Osteoarthritis Modifying Effects of Long-Term Intra-articular Adant) project (2)  and received research funds from Tedec Meiji Farma SA as study investigators. Dr. Navarro-Sarabia also received payment for lectures including service on speakers bureaus from Tedec Meiji Farma SA.

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TO THE EDITOR:
We read Rutjes and colleagues' (1) analysis of the therapeutic effect of intra-articular injections of hyaluronic acid with great interest. We were surprised about the evaluation of our paper (2) in Supplement 6, the table summarizing the methodological characteristics of the studies considered in this meta-analysis. Rutjes and associates' table states that we provided no evidence of the number of randomly assigned or analyzed patients (Figure 2 of our article shows our patients' disposition), that allocation concealment was not adequate (“[a] computer-generated randomised list was used to provide balanced blocks of 4 patients each. Allocation to treatment as well as efficacy and safety evaluation was performed by a blinded physician”), and that our blinding of patients was unclear (“the treatments were packaged identically in order to maintain the blinding conditions”). Furthermore, the intention-to-treat analysis in our article—described as not available in Rutjes and coworkers' table—was performed and described as “all randomly assigned patients with at least one efficacy assessment after randomization.”
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Navarro-Sarabia F, Herrero-Beaumont G. Viscosupplementation for Osteoarthritis of the Knee. Ann Intern Med. ;158:74–75. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-158-1-201301010-00019

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 2013;158(1):74-75.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-158-1-201301010-00019

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