What Factors are Predictive of Patient-reported Outcomes? A Prospective Study of 337 Shoulder Arthroplasties.
CONCLUSIONS: We found six easy-to-determine preoperative patient and shoulder factors that were significantly associated with better outcomes of shoulder arthroplasty. A model based on these characteristics had good predictive properties for identifying patients likely to have a better outcome from shoulder arthroplasty. Future research could refine this model with larger patient populations from multiple practices.
LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level II, therapeutic study.
PMID: 27457623 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research - Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Matsen FA, Russ SM, Vu PT, Hsu JE, Lucas RM, Comstock BA Tags: Clin Orthop Relat Res Source Type: research