Population needs assessment and knee replacement surgery

Rheumatology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 503-506

  Holland, R ^a   Harvey, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPATHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; KNEE ARTHRITIS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE;

EID: 0037384297     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/keg197     Document Type: Editorial

References (34)

1. Department of Health. Working for Patients. London: HMSO, 1989.
2. Stevens A, Gabbay J. Needs assessment needs assessment. Health Trends 1991;23:20-3.
3. Frankel S. The epidemiology of indications. J Epidemiol Community Health 1991;45:257-9.
4. StatsDirect, Version 1.9.15. StatsDirect Ltd.
5. Hadorn DC, Holmes AC. The New Zealand priority criteria project. Part 2: Coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Br Med J 1997;314:135-8.
6. Hadorn DC, Holmes AC. The New Zealand priority criteria project. Part 1: Overview. Br Med J 1997;314:131-4.
7. Naylor CD, Williams JI. Primary hip and knee replacement surgery: Ontario criteria for case selection and surgical priority. Qual Health Care 1996;5:20-30.
8. Lee PP, Kamberg CJ, Hilborne LH et al. Cataract surgery: a literature review and ratings of appropriateness and cruciality. RAND, Santa Monica, USA, 1993.
9. Leske MC, Ederer F, Podgor M. Estimating incidence from age-specific prevalence in glaucoma. Am J Epidemiol 1981;113:606-13.
10. Hudak PL, Clark JP, Hawker GA et al. 'You're perfect for the procedure! Why don't you want it?' Elderly arthritis patients' unwillingness to consider total joint arthroplasty surgery: a qualitative study. Med Decis Making 2002;22:272-8.
11. Birrell F, Johnell O, Silman A. Projecting the need for hip replacement over the next three decades: influence of changing demography and threshold for surgery. Ann Rheum Dis 1999;58:569-72.
12. Robertsson O, Dunbar MJ, Knutson K, Lidgren L. Past incidence and future demand for knee arthroplasty in Sweden: a report from the Swedish Knee Arthroplasty Register regarding the effect of past and future population changes on the number of arthroplasties performed. Acta Orthop Scand 2000;71:376-80.
13. Legorreta AP, Silber JH, Costantino GN, Kobylinski RW, Zatz SL. Increased cholecystectomy rate after the introduction of laparoscopic cholecystectomy. J Am Med Assoc 1993;270:1429-32.
14. Andersen BN. Medical treatment of peptic ulcer disease. Acta Chir Scand Suppl 1988;547:88-92.
15. Frankel S, Eachus J, Pearson N et al. Population requirement for primary hip-replacement surgery: a cross-sectional study. Lancet 1999;353:1304-9.
16. Fear J, Hillman M, Chamberlain MA, Tennant A. Prevalence of hip problems in the population aged 55 years and over: access to specialist care and future demand for hip arthroplasty. Br J Rheumatol 1997;36:74-6.
17. Hawker GA, Wright JG, Coyte PC et al. Determining the need for hip and knee arthroplasty: the role of clinical severity and patients' preferences. Med Care 2001;39:206-16.
18. Tennant A, Fear J, Pickering A, Hillman M, Cutts A, Chamberlain MA. Prevalence of knee problems in the population aged 55 years and over: identifying the need for knee arthroplasty. Br Med J 1995;310:1291-3.
19. Ferris G, Roderick P, Smithies A et al. An epidemiological needs assessment of carotid endarterectomy in an English health region. Is the need being met? Br Med J 1998;317:447-51.
20. Eloff J, Foster A. Cataract surgical coverage: results of a population-based survey at Nkhoma, Malawi. Ophthalmic Epidemiol 2000;7:219-21.
21. Sanderson CF, Hunter DJ, McKee CM, Black NA. Limitations of epidemiologically based needs assessment. The case of prostatectomy. Med Care 1997;35:669-85.
22. Moran CG, Horton TC. Total knee replacement: the joint of the decade. A successful operation, for which there's a large unmet need. Br Med J 2000;320:820.
23. Callahan CM, Drake BG, Heck DA, Dittus RS. Patient outcomes following tricompartmental total knee replacement. A meta-analysis. J Am Med Assoc 1994;271:1349-57.
24. Robertsson O, Knutson K, Lewold S, Lidgren L. The Swedish Knee Arthroplasty Register 1975-1997: an update with special emphasis on 41 223 knees operated on in 1988-1997. Acta Orthop Scand 2001;72:503-13.
25. Jüni P, Dieppe P, Donovan J et al. Population requirement for primary knee-replacement surgery: a cross-sectional study. Rheumatology 2003;42:?.
26. Eachus J, Williams M, Chan P et al. Deprivation and cause specific morbidity: evidence from the Somerset and Avon survey of health. Br Med J 1996;312:287-92.
27. Harry LE, Nolan JF, Elender F, Lewis JC. Who gets priority? Waiting list assessment using a scoring system. Ann R Coll Surg Engl 2000;82(Suppl. 6):186-8.
28. Lequesne MG, Mery C, Samson M, Gerard P. Indexes of severity for osteoarthritis of the hip and knee. Validation-value in comparison with other assessment tests. Scand J Rheumatol Suppl 1987;65:85-9.
29. Department of Health. Table 5. Main operations 2000/01 [Web Page]. Available at http://www.doh.gov.uk/hes/.
30. Williams B, Whatmough P, McGill J, Rushton L. Private funding of elective hospital treatment in England and Wales, 1997-8: national survey. Br Med J 2000;320:904-5.
31. National Center for Health Statistics: National Hospital discharge and ambulatory surgery data. Table 8: Number of all-listed procedures for discharges from short-stay hospitals by procedure category and age: United States, 2000. Advance data no. 329 [Web Page], 2002. Available at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/pdf/ad329t8.pdf.
32. Bagge E, Bjelle A, Eden S, Svanborg A. A longitudinal study of the occurrence of joint complaints in elderly people. Age Ageing 1992;21:160-7.
33. Crawford D. Population strategies to prevent obesity. Br Med J 2002;325:728-9.
34. Williams B, Whatmough P, McGill J, Rushton L. Patients and procedures in short-stay independent hospitals in England and Wales, 1997-1998. J Public Health Med 2000;22:68-73.