NCT00197977

Addressing Patients' Expectations of Total Knee Arthroplasty in a Randomized Trial

Addressing Patients' Expectations of Total Knee Arthroplasty: Developing and Testing an Educational Intervention in a Randomized Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 146 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospital for Special Surgery, New York · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goals of this study are to develop and test an educational intervention to address patients' expectations of long-term outcomes of total knee arthroplasty.

Detailed description

The first goal of this study is to develop an educational intervention to address patients' expectations of long-term outcomes of total knee arthroplasty. The intervention will be structured according to the expectations listed in the Hospital for Special Surgery Total Knee Replacement Expectations Survey. The second goal is to test the intervention in a randomized trial. An additional goal is to compare patients' self-reported knee symptoms with radiographic findings.

Conditions

• Knee Osteoarthritis
• Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Educational program to address patients' expectations

Timeline

• Start date: 2001-11-01
• Primary completion: 2004-09-01
• Completion: 2004-09-01
• First posted: 2005-09-20
• Last updated: 2011-11-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States