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Health Technology Assessment 2012; Vol. 16: No.111 Acknowledgements Health Technology Assessment 2012; Vol. 16: No. 11 ISSNContribution 1366-5278 of authors ISSN 1366-5278 ReferencesAbstractAppendix 7.2 Sodium hyaluronate Appendix 7.3 Physical therapy GlossaryAppendixAppendix 1 7.4 Acupuncture (with or without physical therapy) SearchAppendix strategies 7.5 Manipulation for effectiveness under review anaesthesia 179 ListBIOSIS ofAppendix abbreviations Previews 7.6 Distension CumulativeAppendix Index7.7 Capsular to Nursing release and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) ExecutiveCochrane summary Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) Clinicaltrials.govBackgroundAppendix 8 CochraneObjectivesStudy quality Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) 369 ConferenceMethodsControlled Proceedings trials Citation Index: Science Management of frozen shoulder: DatabaseResultsObservational of Abstracts studies of Reviews of Effects (DARE) EMBASEConclusions a systematic review and HealthFundingAppendix Management 9 Information Consortium (HMIC) HealthWinBUGS Technology code Assessment (HTA) database 373 cost-effectiveness analysis Chapter 1 Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature (LILACS) BackgroundAppendix 10 Manual, Alternative and Natural Therapy (MANTIS) TheMixed-treatment decision problem comparison 375 NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED) FrozenNetwork shoulder 1: studies of any intervention (i.e. conservative and invasive) and any quality National Technical Information Service (NTIS) DiagnosisNetwork 2:and studies management of any intervention that were of good or satisfactory quality (i.e. method E Maund, D Craig, S Suekarran, AR Neilson, PASCAL Previousof randomisation systematic was reviews adequate and outcome assessment was blinded) Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) K Wright, S Brealey, L Dennis, L Goodchild, FocusNetwork of the 3: studiessynthesis of conservative treatments of any quality PREMEDLINE Network 4: studies of conservative treatments that were of good or satisfactory quality (i.e. Science Citation Index N Hanchard, A Rangan, G Richardson, Chaptermethod 2 of randomisation was adequate and outcome assessment was blinded) J Robertson and C McDaid AdditionalMethods quality of life search strategy for information to inform the decision-analytic model OverviewAppendix 11 Appendix 2 ReviewEconomic of clinical evaluation effectiveness study quality and checklistcost-effectiveness 383 Search strategy for review of views of people with frozen shoulder 233 Literature searches Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) InclusionAppendix and 12 exclusion criteria MEDLINE ScreeningEconomic and evaluation study selection data extraction/summary 385 PsycINFO Data extraction Appendix 13 Assessment of risk of bias AppendixResource-use 3 table 387 Synthesis R Resourcecode for standard use for the deviation interventions identified from the primary studies included in the review237 Systematic review of patients’ views of interventions for frozen shoulder HealthAssessmentAppendix Technology 14 of cost-effectivenessAssessment programme Exploratory mapping analysis 389 ChapterAppendixMapping 3 4 from SF-36 PCS and MCS onto EQ-5D Results QualityMapping assessment from pain checklist visual analogue scale onto EQ-5D 245 Assessment of clinical effectiveness AppendixMixed-treatmentAppendix 5 15 comparison results ListPatients’Protocol of excluded views studiesof interventions for frozen shoulder 247403 EconomicResearch analyses protocol 1.1 Appendix 6 Decision1. Research model objectives Study details 263 2. Background Appendix 6.1 Steroid injection Chapter3. Research 4 methods AppendixDiscussion 6.2 Sodium hyaluronate 4. Advisory Group AppendixPrincipal 6.3findings Acupuncture 5. Project timetable and milestones AppendixStrengths 6.4 and Physical limitations therapy of the review March 2012 6. References AppendixImproving 6.5 the Manipulation evidence on underthe effectiveness anaesthesia and cost-effectiveness Appendix A Rapid appraisal search to identify systematic reviews, published and in 10.3310/hta16110 Appendix 6.6 Distension progress, guidelines and ongoing primary research ChapterAppendix 5 6.7 Capsular release ConclusionsAppendix B Search strategy AppendixImplicationsAppendix 7 C for Quality service assessment provision Case series quality rating Health Technology Assessment DataSuggested extraction research tables priorities 291 Appendix 7.1 Steroid injection NIHR HTA programme www.hta.ac.uk HTA How to obtain copies of this and other HTA programme reports An electronic version of this title, in Adobe Acrobat format, is available for downloading free of charge for personal use from the HTA website (www.hta.ac.uk). A fully searchable DVD is also available (see below). 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Management of frozen shoulder: a systematic review and cost-effectiveness analysis E Maund,1 D Craig,1 S Suekarran,1 AR Neilson,1 K Wright,1 S Brealey,2 L Dennis,3 L Goodchild,4 N Hanchard,3 A Rangan,5 G Richardson,6 J Robertson7 and C McDaid1* 1Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, York, UK 2Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK 3School of Health & Social Care, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK 4Department of Rehabilitation, The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK 5The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK 6Centre for Health Economics, University of York, York, UK 7Cambridge Medical Group, Middlesbrough, UK *Corresponding author Declared competing interests of authors: Amar Rangan has received consultancy fees from DePuy International relating to shoulder replacement prostheses. A division of DePuy is involved in marketing products for surgical treatment of the frozen shoulder. The other authors report no conflicts of interest. Published March 2012 DOI: 10.3310/hta16110 This report should be referenced as follows: Maund E, Craig D, Suekarran S, Neilson AR, Wright K, Brealey S, et al. Management of frozen shoulder: a systematic review and cost-effectiveness analysis. Health Technol Assess 2012;16(11). Health Technology Assessment is indexed and abstracted in Index Medicus/MEDLINE, Excerpta Medica/EMBASE, Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch) and Current Contents/ Clinical Medicine. ii NIHR Health Technology Assessment programme The Health Technology Assessment (HTA) programme, part of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), was set up in 1993. 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