N D Clement, R Burnett
PURPOSE: We hypothesise that patients with a worse post-operative generic physical health, and those with a subclinical improvement, will have a greater rate of dissatisfaction with their total knee arthroplasty (TKA) despite improvement in their knee function. METHODS: Prospectively complied data for 2,330 primary TKA were used. Patient demographics, comorbidity, and pre- and post-operative (1 year) Oxford knee scores (OKS) and Short Form (SF-) 12 scores were collected...
November 2013: Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy