How much improvement can satisfy patients? Exploring patients' satisfaction 3 years after total knee arthroplasty.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite the innovations in total knee arthroplasty (TKA), there is still a subset of patients who do not acquire significant relief or expected satisfaction after primary TKA. However, this subgroup of patients still gains improvements more or less in terms of objective or quantified assessments after the procedure. The purpose of our study is to explore the factors that correlate with patients' satisfaction and identify minimal clinically important difference (MCID) and minimum important change (MIC) in clinical parameters.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective study of 161 patients diagnosed with osteoarthritis who underwent unilateral total knee arthroplasty from January 2017 to December 2017. We collected the following parameters: body mass index (BMI), duratio

SUBMITTER: Fan XY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8212506 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature