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

Total Knee Arthroplasty Clinical Trial

Official title:

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

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00999570
• Other study ID #: 2009/626/D
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: October 20, 2009
• Last updated: October 21, 2009
• Start date: January 2004
• Est. completion date: December 2007

Study information

• Verified date: October 2009
• Source: Singapore General Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Singapore: Domain Specific Review Boards
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

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

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 3458
• Est. completion date: December 2007
• Est. primary completion date: May 2007
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 37 Years to 90 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

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

Exclusion Criteria:

• revision total knee arthroplasty

• unicompartmental or bicompartmental knee arthroplasty

Study Design

Observational Model: Case Control, Time Perspective: Prospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Total Knee Arthroplasty

Intervention

Other:
• Specialty training for knee surgeons

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Singapore	Singapore General Hospital	Singapore

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Singapore General Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Singapore, 

References & Publications (1)

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. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	To determine whether specialty training or high volume of operative experience is associated with better clinical outcome and quality-of-life scores.		2 years	No
Secondary	To determine which other factors are predictors of better outcome score and quality-of-life scores.		2 years	No