Assessment of chronic post-surgical pain after knee replacement: development of a core outcome set.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Approximately 20% of patients experience chronic post-surgical pain (CPSP) after total knee replacement (TKR). There is scope to improve assessment of CPSP after TKR, and this study aimed to develop a core outcome set.

Methods

Eighty patients and 43 clinicians were recruited into a three-round modified Delphi study. In Round 1, participants were presented with 56 pain features identified from a systematic review, structured interviews with patients and focus groups with clinicians. Participants assigned importance ratings, using a 1-9 scale, to individual pain features; those features rated as most important were retained in subsequent rounds. Consensus that a pain feature should be included in the core outcome set was defined as the feature having a rating of 7-9

SUBMITTER: Wylde V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4409075 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature