ArticleMuscle & nerve2020
Quality of electrodiagnostic testing for carpal tunnel syndrome: adherence to quality measures.
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- Diabetes Increases Median Nerve Cross-Sectional Area but Not Disease Severity in Patients with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.Journal of hand and microsurgery · 2024Article
- The quality of occupational healthcare for carpal tunnel syndrome, healthcare expenditures, and disability outcomes: A prospective observational study.Muscle & nerve · 2023Observational
- The quality of electrodiagnostic tests for carpal tunnel syndrome: Implications for surgery, outcomes, and expenditures.Muscle & nerve · 2020Observational
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introductionResearch has shown that quality of health-care services is often suboptimal. Little is known about the quality of electrodiagnostic testing.
methodsWe prospectively recruited 477 adults with workers' compensation claims for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) from 30 occupational health clinics and evaluated whether electrodiagnostic testing adhered to five process-oriented quality measures.
resultsAmong patients who had surgery for CTS, nearly all underwent recommended preoperative electrodiagnostic testing (measure #1, 170 of 174, 97.7%). Most electrodiagnostic tests included essential components (measure #2, 295 of 379, 77.8%). However, few reports documented skin temperature (measure #3, 93 of 379, 24.5%) and criteria were seldom met for interpreting test findings as consistent with CTS (measure #4, 41 of 284, 14.4%) or "severe" CTS (measure #5, 8 of 46, 17.4%). DISCUSSION: Most patients underwent testing before surgery, but test quality was often suboptimal. This work lays the groundwork for future efforts to monitor and improve the quality of electrodiagnostic testing for CTS.
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