High Volume Specialty Knee Replacement Surgeons Achieve Better Clinical and Quality-of-Life Scores

Singapore Health Services (SingHealth)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Total Knee Arthroplasty

Treatments: Other: Specialty training for knee surgeons

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00999570

2009/626/D

Details and patient eligibility

About

To determine whether specialty training or high volume of operative experience is associated with better clinical outcome and quality-of-life scores.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 3,458 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 37 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients who require total knee arthroplasty seen during the specified period

Exclusion criteria

• revision total knee arthroplasty
• unicompartmental or bicompartmental knee arthroplasty

Trial design

3,458 participants in 2 patient groups

Patients operated by AR trained surgeons

Description:

patients who had their total knee replacements performed by surgeons who have completed a fellowship training in adult reconstruction surgery

Treatment:

Other: Specialty training for knee surgeons

Patients operated by non-AR surgeons

Description:

patients who had their total knee replacements performed by orthopaedic surgeons who did not complete an adult reconstruction fellowship training