Charles P Hannon, Susan M Goodman, Matthew S Austin, Adolph Yates, Gordon Guyatt, Vinay K Aggarwal, Joshua F Baker, Phyllis Bass, Delamo Isaac Bekele, Danielle Dass, Hassan M K Ghomrawi, David S Jevsevar, C Kent Kwoh, Claudette M Lajam, Charis F Meng, Larry W Moreland, Linda I Suleiman, Jesse Wolfstadt, Kimberly Bartosiak, Nicholas A Bedard, Jason L Blevins, Anna Cohen-Rosenblum, P Maxwell Courtney, Ruth Fernandez-Ruiz, Elizabeth B Gausden, Nilasha Ghosh, Lauren K King, Alexa Simon Meara, Bella Mehta, Reza Mirza, Adam J Rana, Nancy Sullivan, Marat Turgunbaev, Katherine D Wysham, Kevin Yip, Linda Yue, Michael G Zywiel, Linda Russell, Amy S Turner, Jasvinder A Singh
OBJECTIVE: To develop evidence-based consensus recommendations for the optimal timing of hip and knee arthroplasty to improve patient-important outcomes including, but not limited to, pain, function, infection, hospitalization, and death at 1 year for patients with symptomatic and radiographic moderate-to-severe osteoarthritis or advanced symptomatic osteonecrosis with secondary arthritis of the hip or knee who have previously attempted nonoperative therapy, and for whom nonoperative therapy was ineffective, and who have chosen to undergo elective hip or knee arthroplasty (collectively referred to as TJA)...
September 25, 2023: Arthritis & Rheumatology