Application characteristics and clinical effectiveness of clinical finding staging in guiding non-surgical treatment of knee osteoarthritis involving 92 medical institutions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Accumulating evidence suggests that the radiographic phenotypes of patients with knee osteoarthritis (KOA) often do not correlate with their clinical findings, which are the primary reason for seeking medical care. Therefore, at OARSI 2024, we proposed a clinical finding staging system-Chinese medicine staging (CMS)-to guide the treatment of KOA. However, the clinical effectiveness and application characteristics of CMS in guiding non-surgical treatment of KOA remain unclear.

Methods

A total of 14,985 KOA patients were included in the study. Data from 13,983 patients were used to analyze the characteristics of CMS application, while 1465 patients were used to evaluate CMS-guided clinical effectiveness, and 152 patients were included in a comparative analysis of cl

SUBMITTER: Yan Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11660770 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature