Reliability of patient-reported complications following hip or knee arthroplasty procedures.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patient reported outcomes are increasingly used to assess the success of surgical procedures. Patient reported complications are often included as an outcome. However, these data must be validated to be accurate and useful in clinical practice.

Methods

This was a retrospective descriptive study of 364 patients who had completed their six-month follow-up review questionnaire in the Arthroplasty Clinical Outcomes Registry, National (ACORN), an Australian orthopaedic registry. Patient-reported complications following total hip arthroplasty (THA) and total knee arthroplasty (TKA) were compared to surgeon-reported complications recorded in their electronic medical records at their various follow-up appointments. Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and n

SUBMITTER: Heo SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6330452 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature