The STAR care pathway for patients with chronic pain after total knee replacement: four-year follow-up of a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Support and Treatment After Replacement (STAR) care pathway is a clinically important and cost-effective intervention found to improve pain outcomes over one year for people with chronic pain three months after total knee replacement (TKR). We followed up STAR trial participants to evaluate the longer-term clinical- and cost-effectiveness of this care pathway.

Methods

Participants who remained enrolled on the trial at one year were contacted by post at a median of four years after randomisation and invited to complete a questionnaire comprising the same outcomes collected during the trial. We captured pain (co-primary outcome using the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) pain severity and interference scales; scored 0-10, best to worst), function, neuropathic character

SUBMITTER: Bertram W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10725008 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature