Society guideline links: Meniscal injury

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Knee pain".)

International

●Arthroscopic surgery for degenerative knee arthritis and meniscal tears − A clinical practice guideline (2017)

Canada

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't order an MRI for suspected degenerative meniscal tears or osteoarthritis (OA) (updated 2022)

●Health Quality Ontario (HQO) and Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care: Quality-based procedures − Clinical handbook for knee arthroscopy (2014, revised 2019)

United States

●American Physical Therapy Association (APTA): Clinical practice guidelines on exercise-based knee and anterior cruciate ligament injury prevention (2023)

●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria on acute trauma to the knee (revised 2019)

●APTA: Clinical practice guidelines on knee pain and mobility impairments − Meniscal and articular cartilage lesions, revision (2018)

●APTA: Clinical practice guidelines on knee stability and movement coordination impairments − Knee ligament sprain, revision (2017)

Europe

●European Society for Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy (ESSKA): Management of traumatic meniscus tears – The 2019 meniscus consensus (published 2020)

United Kingdom

●British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK): A national society treatment guideline and consensus statement on arthroscopic meniscal surgery (2019)

●BASK: National consensus on the definition, investigation, and classification of meniscal lesions of the knee (2018)

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Interventional procedures guidance for partial replacement of the meniscus of the knee using a biodegradable scaffold (2012)

Australia–New Zealand

●Australian Knee Society (AKS): Position statement on arthroscopic surgery of the knee, including reference to the presence of osteoarthritis or degenerative joint disease (updated 2019)

●Choosing Wisely Australia: Do not perform arthroscopy with lavage and/or debridement or partial meniscectomy for patients with symptomatic osteoarthritis of the knee and/or degenerate meniscal tear (reviewed 2018)