Quality of life assessment scores after ACL reconstruction. 223 patients from the Unisports clinic

OBJECTIVE: Determination of the effectiveness of ACL reconstruction requires outcome measures. Traditionally these have been based on a clinical assessment by the surgeon. The most important outcomes to measure are those that are important to the patient themselves. METHODS: Over a 5-year period all...

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Autores principales: Rosenfeldt, MP, Stanley, J, Walsh, SJ, Twaddle, BC, Tietjens, BR
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4968373/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2325967116S00081
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Sumario:OBJECTIVE: Determination of the effectiveness of ACL reconstruction requires outcome measures. Traditionally these have been based on a clinical assessment by the surgeon. The most important outcomes to measure are those that are important to the patient themselves. METHODS: Over a 5-year period all eligible patients completed a validated ACL-QOL outcome measure. This proved to be a very difficult group to follow with only 22% of eligible patients completing all data forms. RESULTS: ACL provided improved function across of categories on 1 year ACL-QOL scores. There remained a significant deficit to a “normal” knee score. CONCLUSION: Highlighting the importance of prospective data collection, patients had worse retrospective scores at 1 year than they had prospectively.

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