Workman's compensation as exclusion criteria in rotator cuff repair literature - are we inadvertently excluding race?

CONCLUSION: African American and Hispanic/Latino patients are over-represented in workman's compensation patient populations relative to non-workman's compensation. Conversely, white patients are over-represented in non-WC patient populations, which serve as the basis for the majority of clinical study populations. Excluding workman's compensation patients from clinical trials may lead to an underrepresentation of African American and Hispanic/Latino patient populations in orthopedic clinical trials. In doing so, the generalizability of results of rotator cuff repair clinical outcomes research to all races and ethnicities may be compromised.PMID:37800896 | DOI:10.1080/00913847.2023.2267556

Source: The Physician and Sportsmedicine Online - October 6, 2023 Category: Sports Medicine Authors: Donghoon Lee Henson Destine Andres Perez Maxwell C Detweiler Douglas R Corsi Adam J Lencer Brian S Gibbs Kevin B Freedman Fotios P Tjoumakaris Source Type: research