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Trial reportThe Journal of bone and joint surgery. British volume2001

Appropriate questionnaires for knee arthroplasty. Results of a survey of 3600 patients from The Swedish Knee Arthroplasty Registry.

M J Dunbar, O Robertsson, L Ryd, L Lidgren

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Trial report in The Journal of bone and joint surgery. British volume, 2001. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 95 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

95 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Polytrauma outcome: implementation of health-related quality of life assessment into the German Trauma Registry.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2021
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  3. Patellar resurfacing in total knee arthroplasty for osteoarthritis: a meta-analysis.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2011
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  4. [Long-term results in total knee arthroplasty. A meta-analysis of revision rates and functional outcome].Der Chirurg; Zeitschrift fur alle Gebiete der operativen Medizen · 2011
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  5. Preserving Patient-Specific Knee Motion: A Randomized Clinical Trial of Unicompartmental and Total Knee Arthroplasty.Journal of orthopaedic research : official publication of the Orthopaedic Research Society · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

M J DunbarLund University Hospital, Sweden.
O Robertsson
L Ryd
L Lidgren

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Swedish Knee Arthroplasty Registry (SKAR) has recorded knee arthroplasties prospectively in Sweden since 1975. The only outcome measure available to date has been revision status. While questionnaires on health outcome may function as more comprehensive endpoints, it is unclear which are the most appropriate. We tested various outcome questionnaires in order to determine which is the best for patients who have had knee arthroplasty as applied in a cross-sectional, discriminative, postal survey. Four general health questionnaires (NHP, SF-12, SF-36 and SIP) and three disease/site-specific questionnaires (Lequesne, Oxford-12, and WOMAC) were tested on 3600 patients randomly selected from the SKAR. Differences were found between questionnaires in response rate, time required for completion, the need for assistance, the efficiency of completion, the validity of the content and the reliability. The mean overall ranks for each questionnaire were generated. The SF-12 ranked the best for the general health, and the Oxford-12 for the disease/site-specific questionnaires. These two questionnaires could therefore be recommended as the most appropriate for use with a large knee arthroplasty database in a cross-sectional population.

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Arthroplasty, Replacement, KneeSurveys and QuestionnairesAgedAged, 80 and overCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedOutcome Assessment, Health CareRegistriesSweden

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PMID11341416

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