Treatment decision-making process after an anterior cruciate ligament injury: patients', orthopaedic surgeons' and physiotherapists' perspectives.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the treatment decision-making process after an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury from patients', orthopaedic surgeons' and physiotherapists' perspectives.

Methods

The study is a part of the NACOX study, which is designed to describe the natural corollaries after ACL injury. For the present study, a subgroup 101 patients were included. Patients, their orthopaedic surgeons and their physiotherapists, answered a Shared Decision-Making Process (SDMP) questionnaire, when treatment decision for ACL reconstruction surgery (ACLR) or non-reconstruction (non-ACLR) was taken. The SDMP questionnaire covers four topics: " informed patient", " to be heard", " involvement" and " agreement".

Results

Most (75-98%) patients considered their needs met in t

SUBMITTER: Grevnerts HT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9380364 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature