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Patient-reported Outcome and Quality of Life after Treatment with External Fixation: A Questionnaire-based Survey

BACKGROUND: This survey aims to assess the satisfaction of patients who have had treatment using external fixation (EF). MATERIALS AND METHODS: An original questionnaire and a Short Form 36 (SF-36) were distributed to 121 patients who underwent treatment using EF for deformity correction and lengthe...

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Autores principales: Ugaji, Shuhei, Matsubara, Hidenori, Kato, Satoshi, Yoshida, Yasuhisa, Hamada, Tomo, Tsuchiya, Hiroyuki
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Publicado: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8311749/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34326899
http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10080-1519
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author Ugaji, Shuhei
Matsubara, Hidenori
Kato, Satoshi
Yoshida, Yasuhisa
Hamada, Tomo
Tsuchiya, Hiroyuki
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Matsubara, Hidenori
Kato, Satoshi
Yoshida, Yasuhisa
Hamada, Tomo
Tsuchiya, Hiroyuki
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description BACKGROUND: This survey aims to assess the satisfaction of patients who have had treatment using external fixation (EF). MATERIALS AND METHODS: An original questionnaire and a Short Form 36 (SF-36) were distributed to 121 patients who underwent treatment using EF for deformity correction and lengthening between 2006 and 2016. A multivariate analysis was performed on the factors associated with satisfaction. RESULTS: Sixty patients returned a response. The average satisfaction score was 83.6 points. In the 5-point satisfaction survey, 43 of 60 patients (71.7%) responded “very satisfied” or “satisfied” and 27 patients (45.0%) responded “yes” to the question as to whether they would request EF treatment again if presenting with the original preoperative condition. In addition, the subjectively expressed tolerance for having an external fixator device on the limb was 92.1 days on average. A correlation was established with the ISOLS score. CONCLUSION: The top three factors that determined subjective inconvenience with EF are pain, walking, and heaviness. Although EF treatment was stressful, the satisfaction scores were high. Furthermore, the satisfaction with EF treatment was improved by (1) pain control, (2) shortening the EF period, and (3) psychological support. HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Ugaji S, Matsubara H, Kato S, et al. Patient-reported Outcome and Quality of Life after Treatment with External Fixation: A Questionnaire-based Survey. Strategies Trauma Limb Reconstr 2021;16(1):27–31.
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spelling pubmed-83117492021-07-28 Patient-reported Outcome and Quality of Life after Treatment with External Fixation: A Questionnaire-based Survey Ugaji, Shuhei Matsubara, Hidenori Kato, Satoshi Yoshida, Yasuhisa Hamada, Tomo Tsuchiya, Hiroyuki Strategies Trauma Limb Reconstr Original Article BACKGROUND: This survey aims to assess the satisfaction of patients who have had treatment using external fixation (EF). MATERIALS AND METHODS: An original questionnaire and a Short Form 36 (SF-36) were distributed to 121 patients who underwent treatment using EF for deformity correction and lengthening between 2006 and 2016. A multivariate analysis was performed on the factors associated with satisfaction. RESULTS: Sixty patients returned a response. The average satisfaction score was 83.6 points. In the 5-point satisfaction survey, 43 of 60 patients (71.7%) responded “very satisfied” or “satisfied” and 27 patients (45.0%) responded “yes” to the question as to whether they would request EF treatment again if presenting with the original preoperative condition. In addition, the subjectively expressed tolerance for having an external fixator device on the limb was 92.1 days on average. A correlation was established with the ISOLS score. CONCLUSION: The top three factors that determined subjective inconvenience with EF are pain, walking, and heaviness. Although EF treatment was stressful, the satisfaction scores were high. Furthermore, the satisfaction with EF treatment was improved by (1) pain control, (2) shortening the EF period, and (3) psychological support. HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Ugaji S, Matsubara H, Kato S, et al. Patient-reported Outcome and Quality of Life after Treatment with External Fixation: A Questionnaire-based Survey. Strategies Trauma Limb Reconstr 2021;16(1):27–31. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8311749/ /pubmed/34326899 http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10080-1519 Text en Copyright © 2021; Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/© Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers. 2021 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and non-commercial reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Ugaji, Shuhei
Matsubara, Hidenori
Kato, Satoshi
Yoshida, Yasuhisa
Hamada, Tomo
Tsuchiya, Hiroyuki
Patient-reported Outcome and Quality of Life after Treatment with External Fixation: A Questionnaire-based Survey
title Patient-reported Outcome and Quality of Life after Treatment with External Fixation: A Questionnaire-based Survey
title_full Patient-reported Outcome and Quality of Life after Treatment with External Fixation: A Questionnaire-based Survey
title_fullStr Patient-reported Outcome and Quality of Life after Treatment with External Fixation: A Questionnaire-based Survey
title_full_unstemmed Patient-reported Outcome and Quality of Life after Treatment with External Fixation: A Questionnaire-based Survey
title_short Patient-reported Outcome and Quality of Life after Treatment with External Fixation: A Questionnaire-based Survey
title_sort patient-reported outcome and quality of life after treatment with external fixation: a questionnaire-based survey
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8311749/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34326899
http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10080-1519
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