High Volume Specialty Knee Replacement Surgeons Achieve Better Clinical and Quality-of-Life Scores
Completed
- Conditions
- Total Knee Arthroplasty
- Interventions
- Other: Specialty training for knee surgeons
- Registration Number
- NCT00999570
- Lead Sponsor
- Singapore General Hospital
- Brief Summary
To determine whether specialty training or high volume of operative experience is associated with better clinical outcome and quality-of-life scores.
- Detailed Description
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.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 3458
Inclusion Criteria
- patients who require total knee arthroplasty seen during the specified period
Exclusion Criteria
- revision total knee arthroplasty
- unicompartmental or bicompartmental knee arthroplasty
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Patients operated by AR trained surgeons Specialty training for knee surgeons patients who had their total knee replacements performed by surgeons who have completed a fellowship training in adult reconstruction surgery
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To determine whether specialty training or high volume of operative experience is associated with better clinical outcome and quality-of-life scores. 2 years
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To determine which other factors are predictors of better outcome score and quality-of-life scores. 2 years
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Singapore General Hospital
🇸🇬Singapore, Singapore