Validation of the KOOS, JR: A Short-form Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medicare is rapidly moving toward using patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) for outcomes assessment and justification of orthopaedic and other procedures. Numerous measures have been developed to study knee osteoarthritis (OA); however, many of these surveys are long, disruptive to clinic flow, and result in incomplete data capture and/or low followup rates. The Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome (KOOS) physical function short-form (KOOS-PS), while shorter, ignores pain, which is a primary concern of patients with advanced knee OA.

Questions/purposes

Our objective was to derive and validate a short-form survey focused on the patient with end-stage knee OA undergoing TKA.

Methods

Using our hospital's knee replacement registry, we retrospectively id

SUBMITTER: Lyman S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4868168 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature