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Surgeons respond to growing evidence by performing less knee arthroscopic surgery in older patients
Author(s) -
Donaldson Eric T.,
Doma Kenji,
Parkinson Ben
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
anz journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.426
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 1445-1433
DOI - 10.1111/ans.17039
Subject(s) - medicine , arthroscopy , population , physical therapy , clinical practice , general surgery , orthopedic surgery , session (web analytics) , surgery , world wide web , computer science , environmental health
Recent research has shown that knee arthroscopy does not provide a meaningful clinical benefit for degenerative knee changes in the older population. The 2016 Australian Orthopaedic Association Annual Scientific Meeting held a plenary session on this topic to educate surgeons about these research findings and communicate their clinical practice statement on this issue. This paper set out to find if there has been a change in clinical practice since this meeting.