Usage of guideline-adherent core treatments for knee osteoarthritis before and after consulting an orthopaedic surgeon: A prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe 1) the proportion of patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA) undergoing guideline-adherent core treatments until six months after primary referral to an orthopaedic surgeon, 2) which specific treatment pathways these patients undertake and 3) the characteristics of patients choosing different treatment pathways.

Design

This prospective cohort study consecutively invited patients referred to an orthopaedic surgeon due to knee OA at two Danish hospitals from October 2018 to December 2020. Before and six months after consulting the surgeon, patients answered a questionnaire reporting which treatments they had received for knee OA. The proportion receiving the combination of guideline-adherent treatments (i.e., exercise, education, and dietary weight managem

SUBMITTER: Bruhn SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10560838 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature