Implementation of online data collection website into an orthopaedic clinic for Orthopaedic surgeons and patients with knee pain attending for consideration for a total knee joint replacement.
- Conditions
- Knee OsteoarthritisMusculoskeletal - OsteoarthritisPublic Health - Health service research
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12619000215123
- Lead Sponsor
- Associate Professor Michelle Dowsey
- Brief Summary
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- Detailed Description
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Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 936
There are three populations who are the subject of this study.
Surgeon Group: Any surgeons who perform Total Knee Joint Replacement at a participating site will be eligible to participate.
Patients: Any patients who attend a clinic who have been referred from their general practitioner for consideration of a Total Knee Joint Replacement for treatment of knee osteoarthritis/knee pain.
Qualitative Aspect. Any patient, surgeon or hospital staff member who worked at, or visited, a clinic at a participating site whilst the database was being implemented, or used will be eligible to be included in the qualitative aspect of the research project.
There is no exclusion criteria. There is the opportunity for private surgeons to decline the installation and use of the Smart Ortho Database in their private rooms. Their patients will not be able to provide information to determine their level of suitability for this study, however, there is still the opportunity to capture post operative data via chart reviews and Medicare data. Therefore this is not an exclusion of that private surgeon's patients from the study as a whole. This is something that has been factored into the required response rate and the study overall.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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