NCT00999570

High Volume Specialty Knee Replacement Surgeons Achieve Better Clinical and Quality-of-Life Scores

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 3,458 (actual)
• Sponsor: Singapore General Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 37 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To determine whether specialty training or high volume of operative experience is associated with better clinical outcome and quality-of-life scores.

Detailed description

Primary total knee replacements are becoming a commonly performed procedure. Many general orthopaedists can perform large numbers of such surgeries. Thus, we aim to find out if there is value of having surgeons with AR fellowship training to perform primary total knee arthroplasty. This has an implication in the direction of the training of future AR surgeons and in the distribution of operative cases.

Conditions

• Total Knee Arthroplasty

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Specialty training for knee surgeons

Timeline

• Start date: 2004-01-01
• Primary completion: 2007-05-01
• Completion: 2007-12-01
• First posted: 2009-10-22
• Last updated: 2009-10-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Singapore