Assessing Radiographic Knee Osteoarthritis: An Online Training Tutorial for the Kellgren-Lawrence Grading Scale.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative form of arthritis commonly diagnosed in older adults. It presents clinically with patient complaints of pain and impaired function, which are thought to result from cartilage degeneration and other skeletal changes. These changes can by examined radiographically and quantified using the semiquantitative grading scale known as the Kellgren-Lawrence (KL) scale. Currently, no standard training exists for KL grading, which may explain the unsatisfactory reliability of this tool in OA research. Therefore, the objective of this project was to develop a training tutorial for KL grading of knee OA to educate assessors on possible areas of inconsistency in grading.

Methods

The tutorial was developed in an e-learning authoring to

SUBMITTER: Hayes B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6440422 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature