Abstract
(1) Background: To determine the association between patient-reported outcome measures and return to work after knee arthroscopy. (2) Material and Methods: Retrospective analysis of data on patients scheduled for knee arthroscopy in 2019 for which symptom severity was available using International Knee Documentation Committee subjective knee evaluation form (IKDC), Knee Disability And Osteoarthritis Outcome Score For Joint Replacement (KOOS JR), Tegner Lysholm scale and Euroqol EQ5D5L. Paid sick leave was retrieved from electronic patient records. (3) Results: 61 patients (mean age 46.44 ± 7.61 years, 28 (45.9%) males) met the inclusion criteria. All patients ultimately returned to work. Forty-six (75.41%) received a mean of 28.5 (range 7–68) days of paid medical leave after surgery. Of those, three patients were already on medical leave. There were no differences in demographics and clinical scores between patients who received paid sick leave and those who did not. No significant correlation was found between days of absence and clinical scores. (4) Conclusions: There was no association between absence from work and commonly used clinical scores in patients undergoing knee arthroscopy.
Highlights
Knee arthroscopy is one of the most common orthopedic surgeries performed worldwide [1,2]
(2) Material and Methods: Retrospective analysis of data on patients scheduled for knee arthroscopy in 2019 for which symptom severity was available using International Knee Documentation Committee subjective knee evaluation form (IKDC), Knee Disability And Osteoarthritis Outcome Score For Joint Replacement (KOOS JR), Tegner Lysholm scale and Euroqol EQ5D5L
There were no differences in demographics and clinical scores between patients who received paid sick leave and those who did not
Summary
Knee arthroscopy is one of the most common orthopedic surgeries performed worldwide [1,2]. Timisoara Med. 2020, 2020, 2; doi:10.35995/tmj20200102 http://www.tmj.ro. Employees receive a variable amount of paid sick leave. This may represent an objective measure to quantify readiness of returning to work. It has been studied for many musculoskeletal conditions [4,5,6,7,8,9]; there are limited data for arthroscopic knee meniscectomy [10,11]
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