Primary care consultations and pain medicine prescriptions: a comparison between patients with and without chronic pain after total knee replacement.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Approximately 20% of patients experience chronic pain after total knee replacement (TKR). The impact of chronic pain after TKR on primary care services in the UK is currently unknown. The aim of this study was to compare primary care consultations and pain medicine prescriptions between patients with and without chronic pain after TKR.

Methods

Data from 5,055 patients who received TKR between 2009 and 2016 with anonymised linked data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink Gold (CPRD) and English Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) programme were analysed. The exposure time was from 10 years pre-operative to eight years post-operative. Patients with a score ≤ 14 on the Oxford Knee Score pain component scale at 6 months

SUBMITTER: Pinedo-Villanueva R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9172077 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature