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POEMs
Patient-Oriented Evidence That Matters
18-Month Recovery From Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Is More Frequent After Surgery Than After Corticosteroid Injections
Henry C. Barry, MD, MS
American Family Physician. 2026;113(3):276A.
Author disclosure: No relevant financial relationships.
POEMs (patient-oriented evidence that matters) are provided by Essential Evidence Plus, a point-of-care clinical decision support system published by Wiley-Blackwell. For more information, see http://www.essentialevidenceplus.com. Copyright Wiley-Blackwell. Used with permission.
For definitions of levels of evidence used in POEMs, see https://www.essentialevidenceplus.com/Home/Loe?show=Sort.
Primary Care Update, a free podcast focused on POEMs, is available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
This series is coordinated by Natasha J. Pyzocha, DO, contributing editor.
A collection of POEMs published in AFP is available at https://www.aafp.org/afp/poems.
