Can Preoperative Patient-reported Outcome Measures Be Used to Predict Meaningful Improvement in Function After TKA?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite the overall effectiveness of total knee arthroplasty (TKA), a subset of patients do not experience expected improvements in pain, physical function, and quality of life as documented by patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), which assess a patient's physical and emotional health and pain. It is therefore important to develop preoperative tools capable of identifying patients unlikely to improve by a clinically important margin after surgery.

Questions/purposes

The purpose of this study was to determine if an association exists between preoperative PROM scores and patients' likelihood of experiencing a clinically meaningful change in function 1 year after TKA.

Methods

A retrospective study design was used to evaluate preoperative and 1-year posto

SUBMITTER: Berliner JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5174023 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature