High Volume Specialty Knee Replacement Surgeons Achieve Better Clinical and Quality-of-Life Scores

NCT ID: NCT00999570

Last Updated: 2009-10-22

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 3458 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2004-01-31
• Study Completion Date: 2007-12-31

Brief Summary

To determine whether specialty training or high volume of operative experience is associated with better clinical outcome and quality-of-life scores.

Detailed Description

Primary total knee replacements are becoming a commonly performed procedure. Many general orthopaedists can perform large numbers of such surgeries. Thus, we aim to find out if there is value of having surgeons with AR fellowship training to perform primary total knee arthroplasty. This has an implication in the direction of the training of future AR surgeons and in the distribution of operative cases.

Conditions

Total Knee Arthroplasty

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: CASE_CONTROL
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

Patients operated by AR trained surgeons

patients who had their total knee replacements performed by surgeons who have completed a fellowship training in adult reconstruction surgery

Specialty training for knee surgeons

Intervention Type: OTHER

Patients operated by non-AR surgeons

patients who had their total knee replacements performed by orthopaedic surgeons who did not complete an adult reconstruction fellowship training

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Specialty training for knee surgeons

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• patients who require total knee arthroplasty seen during the specified period

Exclusion Criteria

• revision total knee arthroplasty
• unicompartmental or bicompartmental knee arthroplasty

• Minimum Eligible Age: 37 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 90 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Singapore General Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Singapore General Hospital

Principal Investigators

Sok Chuen Tan, MBBS, MRCS

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Singapore General Hospital

Seng Jin Yeo, FRCS, FAMS

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Singapore General Hospital

Locations

Singapore General Hospital

Singapore, , Singapore

Countries

Singapore

References

Katz JN, Mahomed NN, Baron JA, Barrett JA, Fossel AH, Creel AH, Wright J, Wright EA, Losina E. Association of hospital and surgeon procedure volume with patient-centered outcomes of total knee replacement in a population-based cohort of patients age 65 years and older. Arthritis Rheum. 2007 Feb;56(2):568-74. doi: 10.1002/art.22333.

Reference Type: BACKGROUND

PMID: 17265491 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

2009/626/D

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id