A Measurement of Knee Osteoarthritis Usual Care

Completed

• Conditions: Guideline Adherence; Quality Indicators, Health Care; Osteoarthritis, Knee

• Registration Number: NCT01649518
• Lead Sponsor: Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven

Brief Summary

Osteoarthritis is the most common affection of joints worldwide. Multiple international guidelines on the approach and treatment of knee osteoarthritis are available. Nevertheless there seems to be a gap between usual care and the preferred one.

A vigorous set of evidence-based quality indicators on osteoarthritis diagnosis and therapy was developed by a multidisciplinary expert team. This project aims to map usual care and to explore the gaps between usual care and international guidelines in a second stage. This will enable us to develop a tightly targeted quality improvement intervention later on.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2012-06
• Study First Submitted: 2012-07-18
• Study First Submitted QC: 2012-07-20
• Study First Posted: 2012-07-25
• Study Start: 2012-11
• Primary Completion: 2015-07
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-06-01
• Last Update Posted: 2016-06-02

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 284

Inclusion Criteria

• Diagnosis of knee osteoarthritis

Exclusion Criteria

• Knee replacement surgery
• Acute trauma (recruitment by orthopedic surgeons)

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Guideline adherence measured by a number of quality indicators and presented as the percentage of patients in whom a quality indicator was reached	one measurement at the point of recruitment	Guideline adherence by physicians and physiotherapists will be measured by quality indicators. A questionnaire about the care patients received from diagnosis of knee osteoarthritis till now will be used.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Barriers and facilitators for guideline adherence	10 years	Barriers and facilitators for guideline adherence will be explored by focusgroup research with focusgroups of general practitioners, orthopedic surgeons and patients

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

KU Leuven; 🇧🇪 Leuven, Belgium