Patient Preferences Regarding Surgical Interventions for Knee Osteoarthritis.

ABSTRACT: Surgical interventions for knee osteoarthritis (OA) have markedly different procedure attributes and may have dramatic differences in patient desirability. A total of 323 patients with knee OA were included in a dual response, choice-based conjoint analysis to identify the relative preference of 9 different procedure attributes. A model was also developed to simulate how patients might respond if presented with the real-world knee OA procedures, based on conservative assumptions regarding their attributes. The "amount of cutting and removal of the existing bone" required for a procedure had the highest preference score, indicating that these patients considered it the most important attribute. More specifically, a procedure that requires the least amount of bone cutting or removal would be

SUBMITTER: Moorman CT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5613842 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature