High Volume Specialty Knee Replacement Surgeons Achieve Better Clinical and Quality-of-Life Scores

Singapore General Hospital3,458 enrolled

Overview

To determine whether specialty training or high volume of operative experience is associated with better clinical outcome and quality-of-life scores.

Primary total knee replacements are becoming a commonly performed procedure. Many general orthopaedists can perform large numbers of such surgeries. Thus, we aim to find out if there is value of having surgeons with AR fellowship training to perform primary total knee arthroplasty. This has an implication in the direction of the training of future AR surgeons and in the distribution of operative cases.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

3,458

Conditions

Total Knee Arthroplasty

Interventions

Specialty training for knee surgeonsOTHER

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 37 YearsMax age: 90 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * patients who require total knee arthroplasty seen during the specified period Exclusion Criteria: * revision total knee arthroplasty * unicompartmental or bicompartmental knee arthroplasty

Locations (1)

Singapore General Hospital

Singapore, Singapore

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

To determine whether specialty training or high volume of operative experience is associated with better clinical outcome and quality-of-life scores.

Time frame: 2 years

Secondary Outcomes

To determine which other factors are predictors of better outcome score and quality-of-life scores.

Time frame: 2 years

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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