Optimized Referral of Knee Patients to the Orthopedic Outpatient Clinic

Central Jutland Regional Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Osteoarthritis, Knee

Treatments: Other: Orthopedic assessment in the outpatient clinic

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02673801

63 00001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to evaluate an algorithm to screen patients with suspected knee osteoarthritis referred to an orthopedic outpatient clinic by using radiographs and patient-reported symptoms. It will be investigated whether the algorithm is able to identify which patients that are deemed relevant to undergo an orthopedic assessment. This will be evaluated by estimating the sensitivity of the new algorithm compared to with the traditional clinical assessment of the patients.

Full description

Further description is provided as eligibility criteria and outcome measures.

Enrollment: 226 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All patients with a new referral to the orthopedic outpatient clinic with suspected knee osteoarthritis.

Exclusion criteria

• Cognitive or language problems that precludes the filling in of the questionnaires
• Unwillingness to answer the questionnaires
• Patients with rheumatoid arthritis, neurological diseases or cancer

Trial design

226 participants in 1 patient group

Patient referred to orthopedic clinic

Description:

Orthopedic assessment in the outpatient clinic as well as a new algorithm (using patient-reported symptoms and radiographic evaluation) will be applied

Treatment:

Other: Orthopedic assessment in the outpatient clinic