Development and incremental value assessment of a risk prediction model for post-traumatic osteoarthritis following ankle fracture surgery: a prospective study
Xuehua Hu, Hong Cao, Min He, Yunying Wang, Ming Fang, Yu Li, Ying Li · 2026
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Xuehua Hu and colleagues build, in a 2026 study, a risk model for arthritis that follows ankle fracture surgery. This wear of the joint after injury, called post-traumatic osteoarthritis, is common and limiting, yet sorting patients by risk was weak. The team enrolled surgical ankle fracture patients at two Chinese centers and split them into a building group and an outside check group.
About a quarter of the building group showed joint wear within two years on standing X-rays, and a slightly higher share in the check group. A sieving method picked eleven predictors from clinical, blood, care, imaging, and surgery factors. The full model sorted future cases with high accuracy in both groups and agreed well with real outcomes. It also re-sorted patients far better than a standard three-month function score. The authors offer the model for early, personal follow-up planning.
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| CREATOR | Xuehua Hu, Hong Cao, Min He, Yunying Wang, Ming Fang, Yu Li, Ying Li |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 91227 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |