A Measurement of Knee Osteoarthritis Usual Care

Osteoarthritis, Knee Clinical Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01649518
• Other study ID #: S54497
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: July 18, 2012
• Last updated: June 1, 2016
• Start date: November 2012

Study information

• Verified date: June 2012
• Source: Universitaire Ziekenhuizen Leuven
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Belgium: Ethics Committee
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Osteoarthritis is the most common affection of joints worldwide. Multiple international guidelines on the approach and treatment of knee osteoarthritis are available. Nevertheless there seems to be a gap between usual care and the preferred one.

A vigorous set of evidence-based quality indicators on osteoarthritis diagnosis and therapy was developed by a multidisciplinary expert team. This project aims to map usual care and to explore the gaps between usual care and international guidelines in a second stage. This will enable us to develop a tightly targeted quality improvement intervention later on.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 284
• Est. primary completion date: July 2015
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Diagnosis of knee osteoarthritis

Exclusion Criteria:

• Knee replacement surgery

• Acute trauma (recruitment by orthopedic surgeons)

Study Design

Time Perspective: Retrospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Guideline Adherence
• Osteoarthritis
• Osteoarthritis, Knee
• Quality Indicators, Health Care

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Belgium	KU Leuven	Leuven

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Universitaire Ziekenhuizen Leuven

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Belgium, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Guideline adherence measured by a number of quality indicators and presented as the percentage of patients in whom a quality indicator was reached	Guideline adherence by physicians and physiotherapists will be measured by quality indicators. A questionnaire about the care patients received from diagnosis of knee osteoarthritis till now will be used.	one measurement at the point of recruitment	No
Secondary	Barriers and facilitators for guideline adherence	Barriers and facilitators for guideline adherence will be explored by focusgroup research with focusgroups of general practitioners, orthopedic surgeons and patients	10 years	No