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Orthopaedic Proceedings
Vol. 99-B, Issue SUPP_9 | Pages 61 - 61
1 May 2017
Mijnes J Heyligers I Grimm B
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Background

Complete and reliable outcome assessment is important for clinical quality control and research evidence. Online questionnaires offer the opportunity to perform follow-up at distance and desired frequency saving efforts and cost to patients and hospitals increasingly not reimbursed for this service. Patients in this unique study have been invited by mail (not at visit or by phone) and were asked to complete both methods (online, paper) instead of only one option. For the first time, response, completion and reliability of the HOOS, KOOS-PS and New-KSS, popular patient-reported outcomes (PROM's) in TJA were measured.

Methods

Patients (n=107) were invited pre-operative by mail to register at atriumproms.nl (Interactive Studios, Netherlands) and complete PROM's online, followed by a second invitation three days later to complete the same on paper. THA patients (n=48) completed EQ-5D-3L, VAS pain and HOOS. TKA (n=59) questionnaires consisted of KOOS-PS, VAS pain and New-KSS. Reliability was assessed using intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). ICC was considered excellent >0.75 according to literature.