Abstract:

This proposal issued to guide the development of the " Expert consensus on the clinical application of 3D printed patient-specific instrumentation for total knee arthroplasty " and to receive methodological supervision. Referred to the standards of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the World Health Organization (WHO) concerning expert consensus and guidelines, literature evidence quality assessment, recommendation strength grading, and related software, as well as the Oxford Evidence Grading Standards were applied. The consensus plan determined the handling and operation steps for key issues such as conflict of interest declaration and handling, subjects, interventions, controls, prognosis (PICO principles) issues, search strategy, evidence quality evaluation, generation of consensus opinions, peer review of consensus recommendation opinions, consensus formation, publication and updates, dissemination, implementation and evaluation of consensus, users and target population of the consensus.

Key words: Knee, Arthroplasty, replacement, Printing, three-dimensional, Osteotomy, Clinical application