Letter to the editor commenting on “Prognostic factors of knee pain and function 12 months after total knee arthroplasty: A prospective cohort study of 798 patients”

Garval and colleagues conducted a prognostic study to determine whether preoperative variables predicted poor total knee arthroplasty (TKA) pain and function outcome 12-months following surgery [1]. The Oxford Knee Score (OKS) [2] was the primary outcome of interest. Garval et al defined poor outcome by first converting preoperative and 12-month postoperative continuous scaled OKSs to ordinal scaled categories of 10 to 19, 20 to 29, and 30 to 39. Patients scoring below 10 (n  = 7) and above 39 (n = 5) preoperatively were excluded.

Source: The Knee - October 26, 2023 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Daniel L. Riddle, Levent Dumenci Source Type: research