Qualitative Study to elicit patients’ and primary care physicians’ perspectives on the use of a self-management mobile health application for knee osteoarthritis.
Objective To elicit perspectives of family physicians and patients with knee osteoarthritis (KOA) on KOA, its treatment/management and the use of a mobile health application (app) to help patients self-manage their KOA.Design A qualitative study using Cognitive Task Analysis for physician interviews and peer-to-peer semistructured interviews for patients according to the Patient and Community Engagement […]
Prevalence of sarcopenic obesity in adults with end-stage knee osteoarthritis
Preoperative opioid use is associated with worse patient outcomes after Total joint arthroplasty: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Models of arthritis care: A systems-level evaluation of acceptability as a dimension of quality care
Health at a Glance 2019: OECD Indicators
Geographic variation in osteoarthritis prevalence in Alberta: a spatial analysis approach
There is limited evidence on the geographic distribution of osteoarthritis (OA) in Alberta to inform planning of equitable access to health care services. This research aimed to explore the geographic variation in age-sex standardized OA prevalence rates by geographic areas across the rural-urban continuum, and by six-digit postal codes using global Moran’s I and hot […]
Development of a Canadian Core Clinical Dataset to Support High-quality Care for Canadian Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Co-design of a patient experience survey for arthritis central uptake: an example of meaningful patient engagement in healthcare design
Association between Allogeneic Blood Transfusion and Wound Infection after Total Hip or Knee Arthroplasty: A Retrospective Case-Control Study.
An individualized patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) based patient decision aid and surgeon report for patients considering total knee arthroplasty: Protocol for a pragmatic randomized controlled trial.
Objective The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an online patient decision aid with individualised potential outcomes of surgery, on the quality of decisions for knee replacement surgery in routine clinical care. Design A pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) in patients considering total knee replacement at a high-volume orthopedic clinic. Patients […]