Patient-Reported Outcomes Associated With “Completely Better” Status at 2 Years After Hip Arthroscopy

Matthew P. Kolevar, Evan L. Honig, Michael S. Rocca, Samir Kaveeshwar, Andrew Tran, Jacob T. Hartline, Natalie L. Leong, Jonathan D. Packer, R. Frank Henn, Sean J. Meredith · 2024

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Matthew Kolevar and nine co-authors ask what scores match a patient's sense of being fully healed after hip surgery in a 2024 study. Hip arthroscopy patients rate their own outcomes on standard forms, but no one had mapped the strictest verdict, completely better, onto those scores. The team followed patients of one center for two years after surgery.

Of sixty two patients, twenty nine, near half, said the condition was completely better at two years. The groups did not split by age, sex, weight, race, past surgery, or hopes going in. The fully healed group posted better scores across function, pain, and mental health forms. The authors set score thresholds that flag full healing at high confidence. The marks give clinics a plain target to quote.

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CREATORMatthew P. Kolevar, Evan L. Honig, Michael S. Rocca, Samir Kaveeshwar, Andrew Tran, Jacob T. Hartline, Natalie L. Leong, Jonathan D. Packer, R. Frank Henn, Sean J. Meredith
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE29 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11632956

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