Home-based rehabilitation programme compared with traditional physiotherapy for patients at risk of poor outcome after knee arthroplasty: the CORKA randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate whether a home-based rehabilitation programme for people assessed as being at risk of a poor outcome after knee arthroplasty offers superior outcomes to traditional outpatient physiotherapy.

Design

A prospective, single-blind, two-arm randomised controlled superiority trial.

Setting

14 National Health Service physiotherapy departments in the UK.

Participants

621 participants identified at high risk of a poor outcome after knee arthroplasty using a bespoke screening tool.

Interventions

A multicomponent home-based rehabilitation programme delivered by rehabilitation assistants with supervision from qualified therapists versus usual care outpatient physiotherapy.

Main outcome measures

The primary outcome was the Late-Life Funct

SUBMITTER: Barker KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8404435 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature