Surgeon Training and Revision Rates After Patellofemoral Arthroplasty.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Surgeon training with a specific implant is often not considered in implant registry-based studies, which may lead to unobserved confounding bias. Discrepancies between registry and clinical trial outcomes for patellofemoral arthroplasty (PFA) may originate from differences in surgeon training levels.

Objective

To compare revision rates for knees operated on by knee surgeons specifically trained for PFA and knee surgeons who were not.

Design, setting, and participants

In this population-based cohort study, the framework of a target trial was used to compare outcomes for 2 patient groups: patients who underwent PFA performed by knee surgeons who had (trial surgeons) vs who had not (nontrial surgeons) received focused PFA training as part of a randomized clin

SUBMITTER: Rasmussen LE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12205405 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature