One-year patient-reported outcomes following primary arthroscopic rotator cuff repair vary little by surgeon

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Background: This study's purpose was to investigate the extent to which differences among operating surgeons may influence 1-year patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in patients undergoing rotator cuff repair (RCR) surgery, after controlling for general and disease-specific patient factors. We hypothesized that surgeon would be additionally associated with 1-year PROMs, specifically the baseline to 1-year improvement in Penn Shoulder Score (PSS).

Methods: We used mixed multivariable statistical modeling to assess the influence of surgeon (and alternatively surgical case volume) on 1-year PSS improvement in patients undergoing RCR at a single health system in 2018, controlling for eight patient- and six disease-specific preoperative factors as possible confounders. Contributions of predictors to explaining variation in 1-year PSS improvement were measured and compared using Akaike's Information Criterion.

Results: 518 cases performed by 28 surgeons met inclusion criteria, with median (quartiles) baseline PSS of 41.9 (31.9, 53.9) and 1-year PSS improvement of 42 (29.1, 55.3) points. Contrary to expectation, surgeon and surgical case volume were neither statistically significantly nor clinically meaningfully associated with 1-year PSS improvement. Baseline PSS and mental health status (VR-12 MCS) were the dominant and only statistically significant predictors of 1-year PSS improvement, with lower baseline PSS and higher VR-12 MCS predicting larger 1-year PSS improvement.

Conclusion: Patients generally reported excellent 1-year outcomes following primary RCR. This study did not find evidence that the individual surgeon or surgeon case volume influences 1-year PROMs, independently of case-mix factors, following primary RCR in a large employed hospital system.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:7

Enthalten in:

JSES international - 7(2023), 4 vom: 01. Juli, Seite 568-573

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sahoo, Sambit [VerfasserIn]
Derwin, Kathleen A [VerfasserIn]
Jin, Yuxuan [VerfasserIn]
Imrey, Peter B [VerfasserIn]
Cleveland Clinic Shoulder Group [VerfasserIn]
Ricchetti, Eric T [VerfasserIn]
Entezari, Vahid [VerfasserIn]
Iannotti, Joseph P [VerfasserIn]
Spindler, Kurt P [VerfasserIn]
Ho, Jason C [VerfasserIn]
Evans, Peter J [Sonstige Person]
Farrow, Lutul D [Sonstige Person]
Gilot, Gregory J [Sonstige Person]
Miniaci, Anthony A [Sonstige Person]
Schickendantz, Mark S [Sonstige Person]
Seitz, William H [Sonstige Person]
Serna, Alfred [Sonstige Person]
Stearns, Kim L [Sonstige Person]
Strnad, Greg [Sonstige Person]

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Themen:

Journal Article
Multivariable model
PENN shoulder score
PROMs
Preoperative factors
Rotator cuff repair
Shoulder
Surgeon performance

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Date Revised 18.07.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jseint.2023.03.007

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM359279627