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Patients' experience on pain outcomes after hip arthroplasty: insights from an information tool based on registry data

Abstract:
Background
Arthroplasty registries are rarely used to inform encounters between clinician and patient. This study is part of a larger one which aimed to develop an information tool allowing both to benefit from previous patients’ experience after total hip arthroplasty (THA). This study focuses on generating the information tool specifically for pain outcomes.
Methods
Data from the Geneva Arthroplasty Registry (GAR) about patients receiving a primary elective THA between 1996 and 2019 was used. Selected outcomes were identified from patient and surgeon surveys: pain walking, climbing stairs, night pain, pain interference, and pain medication. Clusters of patients with homogeneous outcomes at 1, 5, and 10 years postoperatively were generated based on selected predictors evaluated preoperatively using conditional inference trees (CITs).
Results
Data from 6,836 THAs were analysed and 14 CITs generated with 17 predictors found significant (p < 0.05). Baseline WOMAC pain score, SF-12 self-rated health (SRH), number of comorbidities, SF-12 mental component score, and body mass index (BMI) were the most common predictors. Outcome levels varied markedly by clusters whilst predictors changed at different time points for the same outcome. For example, 79% of patients with good to excellent SRH and less than moderate preoperative night pain reported absence of night pain at 1 year after THA; in contrast, for those with fair/poor SHR this figure was 50%. Also, clusters of patients with homogeneous levels of night pain at 1 year were generated based on SRH, Charnley, WOMAC night and pain scores, whilst those at 10 years were based on BMI alone.
Conclusions
The information tool generated under this study can provide prospective patients and clinicians with valuable and understandable information about the experiences of “patients like them” regarding their pain outcomes.
Publication status:
Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1186/s12891-024-07357-6

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
NDORMS
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Author
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0000-0001-9922-4810
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
NDORMS
Role:
Author


Publisher:
BioMed Central
Journal:
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders More from this journal
Volume:
25
Issue:
1
Article number:
255
Place of publication:
England
Publication date:
2024-04-01
Acceptance date:
2024-03-13
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EISSN:
1471-2474
Pmid:
38561701


Language:
English
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Pubs id:
1987704
Local pid:
pubs:1987704
Deposit date:
2024-04-09

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