Table 2 Study demographics
From: A scoping review of the proximal humerus fracture literature
Characteristic | Frequency |
|---|---|
N (%) | |
(N = 1,051) | |
Geographic location of study | |
Europe | 673 (64.0) |
North America | 218 (20.7) |
Asia | 106 (10.1) |
Middle East | 21 (2.0) |
India | 8 (0.8) |
Australasia | 5 (0.5) |
South America/Central America | 5 (0.5) |
Eurasia | 3 (0.3) |
Africa | 2 (0.2) |
International collaborations | 10 (1.0) |
Publication language | |
English | 752 (71.6) |
German | 134 (12.7) |
Chinese | 51 (4.9) |
French | 29 (2.8) |
Italian | 25 (2/4) |
Czech | 15 (1.4) |
Polish | 7 (0.7) |
Russian | 7 (0.7) |
Turkish | 6 (0.6) |
Spanish | 5 (0.5) |
Danish | 4 (0.4) |
Greek | 3 (0.3) |
Portuguese | 3 (0.3) |
Slovak | 3 (0.3) |
Bulgarian | 1 (0.1) |
Croatian | 1 (0.1) |
Farsi | 1 (0.1) |
Hungarian | 1 (0.1) |
Japanese | 1 (0.1) |
Romanian | 1 (0.1) |
Serbian | 1 (0.1) |
Study design | |
Case series | 509 (48.4) |
Comparative study | 125 (11.9) |
Basic science | 123 (11.7) |
Review | 116 (11.0) |
Surgical technique | 56 (5.3) |
Randomized controlled trial | 33 (3.1) |
Reliability | 30 (2.9) |
Incidence/Prevalence | 20 (1.9) |
Control | 12 (1.1) |
Protocol | 5 (0.5) |
Economic analysis | 1 (0.1) |
Survey | 1 (0.1) |
Other | 9 (0.9) |
Unknown | 11 (1.0) |
Study perspective | |
Retrospective | 411 (39.1) |
Prospective | 259 (24.6) |
Not applicable | 339 (32.3) |
Unable to classify | 42 (4.0) |