Eliciting Activity Goals With a Self-Administered Survey Among Patients With Hip or Knee Osteoarthritis.

ABSTRACT: Background: Success of treatment for hip or knee osteoarthritis (OA) should be evaluated relative to patients' personal activity goals. Questions/Purposes: We sought to ascertain important principles for collecting such goals and developed a survey informed by those principles to facilitate better shared decision-making. Methods: From a series of 100 patient interviews inquiring about specific activity goals, we identified 6 principles for goal collection that are important to patients and physicians and could practically facilitate better shared decision-making (phase 1). Incorporating these principles, we designed a self-administered survey to measure specific pretreatment activity goals, piloting in 1 surgeon's office (phase 2). During office visits, the feasibility

SUBMITTER: Alan Fontana M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9527544 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature