Patient preferences before and after total knee arthroplasty

Improving patients’ experience and outcome of total joint replacement: the RESTORE programme

“…618 Several ongoing difficulties are reported after surgery. 618,630 Wright and colleagues 630 reported that the most common functional complaints do not improve after knee replacement, the complaints include difficulty kneeling and crouching, and impaired ability to walk up and down stairs. Rogers and colleagues 629 also found bending/ stooping and walking 1 km a frequently reported difficulty after TKR.…”

CORR Insights®: Women Demonstrate More Pain and Worse Function Before THA but Comparable Results 12 Months After Surgery

“…This should minimize the effect of misunderstood items, theoretically anyway. However, another approach may be patient-directed or patient-specific PROMs, which solicit directly from the patient what they hope to achieve from the treatment and then later assess whether those goals were achieved [5,7]. Initial development of those instruments, however, utilized paper administration, which was highly inefficient with individualized paper surveys needing to be created for each patient in a study.…”

An overview of quality and safety in health care

“…42 It is increasingly clear that well-informed patients do not necessarily demand every available treatment. 1,43 Patients who are engaged in their own care and have a reasonable understanding of their options (including the option of doing nothing) are likely to make better choices and contribute more constructively to their own safety than those who are not. 44 It is also important for all those involved with caring for patients within the complex system of modern health care to communicate constructively with each other and to be united both in their messages to patients and in their efforts to treat them.…”

“…42 Il est de plus en plus clair que des patients bien informés n'exigent pas forcément tous les traitements à leur disposition. 1,43 Les patients qui s'impliquent dans leurs soins et ont une compréhension raisonnable de leurs options (y compris l'option de ne rien faire) feront probablement de meilleurs choix et contribueront de façon plus constructive à leur propre sécurité que des patients qui ne s'impliquent pas. 44 Il est également important que tous ceux qui sont impliqués dans les soins des patients au sein du système complexe des soins de santé moderne communiquent de façon constructive entre eux et qu'ils présentent un front commun dans leurs messages aux patients et dans leurs efforts pour les traiter.…”