Educational Intervention for Knee Pain

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Osteoarthritis

In brief

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the efficacy of interventions to improve understanding of knee replacement risks, benefits, and expected outcomes among AA primary care patients, increase willingness to consider knee replacement among AA primary care patients, and increase primary care referral rates for surgical consideration for AA patients who meet the indications for knee replacement.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00324857

Run by

VA Office of Research and Development

People needed

663

Starts

2006-09-01

Expected to finish

2011-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2018-10-10

Who can join

Age: 50 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Philadelphia VA Medical Center, Louis Stokes Cleveland VAMC, AA primary care patients > age 50 who meet clinical criteria for knee OA (i.e., chronic, frequent knee pain based on the NHANES questions, WOMAC score = 39, and radiographic evidence of knee OA with K-L grade =2) are eligible for enrollment

You may not qualify if…

• Patients who have prior history of any:
• major joint replacement
• terminal illness (e.g., end-stage cancer)
• physician-diagnosed inflammatory arthritis (i.e., rheumatoid arthritis, connective tissue disease, ankylosing spondylitis or other seronegative spondyloarthropathy)
• contra-indications to replacement surgery (e.g., lower extremity paralysis as result of stroke)
• Patients who are not willing to be randomized
• Do not have the presence of knee OA
• Do not have telephone service

Where it is running

• VA Medical Center, Cleveland — Cleveland, Ohio, United States
• VA Medical Center, Philadelphia — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
• Division of General Medicine — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

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