Problematic Hip Replacement PSP questions verification form

The purpose of this Question Verification Form is to enable Priority Setting Partnerships (PSPs) to describe clearly how they checked that their questions were unanswered, before starting the interim prioritisation stage of the process.

The JLA requires PSPs to be transparent and accountable in defining their own scope and evidence checking process. This will enable researchers and other stakeholders to understand how individual PSPs decided that their questions were unanswered, and any limitations of their evidence checking.

Name of the PSP

Problematic Hip Replacement

Please describe the scope of the PSP

Revision Hip Replacement
Painful and poorly functioning hip replacement
Patient priorities
Diagnostic uncertainties
Investigation pathways
Treatment algorithms
Determinants of outcome
Health economics

Please provide a brief overview of your approach to checking whether the questions were unanswered

Specific search terms were written for each question, approved by the evidence checking team and searched against. Abstracts of relevant results were then assessed by the team. 3948 abstracts were reviewed.

Please list the type(s) of evidence you used to verify your questions as unanswered

As well as assessment of abstracts produced from above search strategy we searched through all:

The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
NICE guidelines
SIGN clinical guidelines
Relevant Royal Colleges’ guidance
British Hip Society Surgical Standards

Please list the sources that you searched in order to identify that evidence

Search terms were used in Medline, Scopus and Embase

Please describe the parameters of the search (eg time limits, excluded sources, country/language) and the rationale for any limitations

High quality systematic review, high quality metanalysis, International guidelines and Local National (UK, or nations within) guidelines produced in the last ten years, written in English and freely available to review.

Names of individuals who undertook the evidence checking

Josh Lamb, Hiren Divecha, Asim Kham & Tim Board

On what date was the question verification process completed?

29th February 2023

Any other relevant information

N/A