• Long-Ze Zong, Ming-Ming Duan, Wei-Wei Yuan, and Hao-Dong Lu.
• Department of Joint Surgery.
• Medicine (Baltimore). 2020 Jun 26; 99 (26): e20591.

BackgroundThis study will investigate the efficacy and safety of shoulder arthroscopic surgery (SAS) for patients with rotator cuff injury (RCI).MethodsWe will systematically search for randomized controlled trials in the electronic databases of PUBMED, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Web of Science, Allied and Complementary Medicine Database, Chinese Biomedical Literature Database, and China National Knowledge Infrastructure. All above databases will be searched from their beginning to March 1, 2020 without language restrictions. Two reviewers will independently scan retrieved records, evaluate study quality and extract data. If possible, we will synthesize the data and conduct a meta-analysis by RevMan 5.3 software.ResultsThis systematic review will summarize the most recent evidence to explore the efficacy and safety of SAS for patients with RCI.ConclusionThe findings of this study will help to provide a genuine understanding of perspective from a scientific basis on the efficacy and safety of SAS for patients with RCI.Prospero Registration NumberPROSPERO CRD42020170009.

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