Association between surgeon training grade and the risk of revision following unicompartmental knee replacement: An analysis of National Joint Registry data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Unicompartmental knee replacements (UKRs) are performed by surgeons at various stages in training with varying levels of supervision, but we do not know if this is a safe practice with comparable outcomes to consultant-performed UKR. The aim of this study was to use registry data for England and Wales to investigate the association between surgeon grade (consultant, or trainee), the senior supervision of trainees (supervised by a scrubbed consultant, or not), and the risk of revision surgery following UKR.

Methods and findings

We conducted an observational study using prospectively collected data from the National Joint Registry for England and Wales (NJR). We included adult patients who underwent primary UKR for osteoarthritis (n = 106,206), recorded in the NJR b

SUBMITTER: Fowler TJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11386457 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature