The “Top 10” Psychosocial Factors Affecting Orthopaedic Outcomes

Curtis, William E.; Fine, River; Moya, Addi; Blackstone, Robert C.; Wardell, Richard; Treme, Gehron; Richter, Dustin L.

doi:10.2106/jbjs.jopa.21.00038

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“…12 Pre-operative patient expectations and the MC's attitude regarding their patient's expected outcomes have been associated with outcomes and patient satisfaction. [13][14][15][16] Fulfillment of pre-orthopedic surgery expectations, such as reduction in pain or improved physical functionality, is usually associated with high patient-satisfaction and improved functionality. 17,18 Thus, optimizing pre-operative expectations communication between patients and their MCs is a key element of quality-rehabilitative orthopedic care.…”

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Perception of Goals and Expected Outcomes in Older Hip Fracture Patients and Their Medical Staff: A Cross Sectional Study

Schroeder,

Israeli,

Liebergall

et al. 2023

Geriatr Orthop Surg Rehabil

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Background Goal-oriented patientcare is a key element in qualityhealthcare. Medical-caregiver’s (MC) are expected to generate a shared decision-making process with patients regarding goals and expected health-outcomes. Hip-fracture patients (HFP) are usually older-adults with multiple health-conditions, necessitating that agreed-upon goals regarding the rehabilitation process, take these conditions into consideration. This topic has yet to be investigated by pairing and comparing the perception of expected outcomes and therapeutic goals of multidisciplinary MCs and their HF patient’s. Our aim was to assess in a quantitative method whether HFPs and their multidisciplinary MCs agree upon target health-outcomes and their most important goals as they are reflected in the SF12 questionnaire. Methods This was a cross-sectional, multi-center, study of HFPs and their MCs. Patients and MCs were asked to rate their top three most important goals for rehabilitation from the SF12 eight subscales: physical functioning, physical role limitation, bodily pain, general health, vitality, social functioning, emotional role limitation and mental health, and indicate their expected outcome. Descriptive statistics and mixed effect logistic-regression were used to compare concordance of the ratings. Agreement between patients and MCs was assessed using interclass coefficients (ICCs). Results A total of 378 ratings were collected from 52 patients, 12 nurses, 12 physicians and 6 paramedical personnel. Each patient had between 3 and 9 raters. Patients considered physical functioning and physical role limitation more important than did MCs. Physicians and nurses emphasized the importance of bodily pain while patients referred to it as relatively less significant. The total ICC was low (2%) indicating poor agreement between MCs and patients. With the exception of physical-functioning, MCs predicted a less optimistic outcome in all of the SF12's subscales in comparison to HFPs. Conclusion Effective intervention in HFPs requires constructive communication between MCs and patients. The study suggests that caregivers have an insufficient understanding of the expectations of HFPs. More effective communication channels are required in order to better understand HFPs’ needs and expectations.

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