Quality of Non-Surgical and Non-Pharmacological Knee Osteoarthritis Care in the Maritimes.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate the quality and types of care individuals with mild-to-moderate knee osteoarthritis receive in the Canadian Maritime provinces, and determine associations with demographic, social, and patient-reported factors.

Methods

Individuals with knee osteoarthritis were invited to complete a healthcare quality survey based on the British Columbia Osteoarthritis (BC OA) survey. The cross-sectional descriptive observational survey assessed four healthcare quality indicators: advice to exercise, advice to lose weight, assessment of ambulatory function, and assessment of non-ambulatory function. Pass-rates were calculated overall and for each quality indicator. Binary logistic regressions determined associations between quality indicators and demographic, social, an

SUBMITTER: Budarick AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11711289 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature