Relationship Between Knee Pain and Patient Preferences for Joint Replacement: Health Care Access Matters.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine if severity of osteoarthritis-related knee pain is associated with a willingness to undergo total knee replacement (TKR) and whether this association is confounded or modified by components of socioeconomic status and health care coverage.

Methods

Cross-sectional analysis was conducted among 3,530 Osteoarthritis Initiative study participants. Logistic regression models were used to assess the effect of knee pain severity (where 0 = none, 1-3 = mild, 4-7 = moderate, and 8-10 = severe) on willingness to undergo TKR. Stratified analyses were conducted to evaluate whether socioeconomic status and health care coverage modify the effect of knee pain severity on willingness.

Results

Participants with severe knee pain, compared to participants without p

SUBMITTER: Vina ER 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5525549 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature