{"id":3929,"date":"2025-01-15T11:47:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T15:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/?p=3929"},"modified":"2025-01-15T11:48:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T15:48:41","slug":"test-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/index.php\/2025\/01\/15\/test-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Quality of Non\u2010Surgical and Non\u2010Pharmacological Knee Osteoarthritis Care in the Maritimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\"><\/h1>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\">Authors: Aleksandra Budarick, Cheryl Hubley-Kozey, Linda Li, Olga Theou, William Stanish<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Journal: Musculoskeletal Care<\/p>\n<article class=\"bright\">\n<div class=\"html-article-content\">\n<div class=\"highlight-box1\">\n<p>Objectives: To evaluate the quality and types of care individuals with mild\u2010to\u2010moderate knee osteoarthritis receive in the\u00a0Canadian Maritime provinces, and determine associations with demographic, social, and patient\u2010reported factors.<\/p>\n<p>Methods: Individuals with knee osteoarthritis were invited to complete a healthcare quality survey based on the British\u00a0Columbia Osteoarthritis (BC OA) survey. The cross\u2010sectional descriptive observational survey assessed four healthcare quality\u00a0indicators: advice to exercise, advice to lose weight, assessment of ambulatory function, and assessment of non\u2010ambulatory\u00a0function. Pass\u2010rates were calculated overall and for each quality indicator. Binary logistic regressions determined associations between quality indicators and demographic, social, and patient\u2010reported outcomes. Patient\u2010reported use of exercise and\u00a0diet as arthritis treatments were added to the quality indicator eligibility criteria as a sensitivity analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Results: Participants (n = 241) had a mean age of 67 (7) years, body mass index of 30.7 (7.5) kg\/m2 and were 77% female. The\u00a0overall pass rate was 42.9% using the BC OA criteria, and 49.3% in the sensitivity analysis. Individual quality indicator pass\u2010rates\u00a0ranged from 4.3% for non\u2010ambulatory function to 85.7% for ambulatory function assessments. The sensitivity analysis increased\u00a0pass\u2010rates for advice to exercise (61.9%\u201369.3%) and advice to lose weight (27.9%\u201335.1%). Pass\u2010rates were not driven by demographic, social, or patient\u2010reported factors.<\/p>\n<p>Conclusions: Over half of individuals with mild\u2010to\u2010moderate knee osteoarthritis did not receive recommended core treatments\u00a0in the Maritimes, highlighting a need to improve care for this patient group. Quality indicators should be routinely evaluated to\u00a0determine whether clinical care aligns with best practice guidelines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"html-dynamic\">\n<section>\n<div class=\"art-abstract art-abstract-new in-tab hypothesis_container\">\n<section id=\"html-abstract\" class=\"html-abstract\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div>doi:\u00a010.1002\/msc.70047<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors: Aleksandra Budarick, Cheryl Hubley-Kozey, Linda Li, Olga Theou, William Stanish Journal: Musculoskeletal Care Objectives: To evaluate the quality and types of care individuals with mild\u2010to\u2010moderate knee osteoarthritis receive in the\u00a0Canadian Maritime provinces, and determine associations with demographic, social, and patient\u2010reported factors. Methods: Individuals with knee osteoarthritis were invited to complete a healthcare quality survey based on the British\u00a0Columbia Osteoarthritis (BC OA) survey. The cross\u2010sectional descriptive observational survey assessed four healthcare quality\u00a0indicators: advice to exercise, advice to lose weight, assessment of ambulatory function, and assessment of non\u2010ambulatory\u00a0function. Pass\u2010rates were calculated overall and for each quality indicator. Binary logistic regressions determined associations between quality indicators and demographic, social, and patient\u2010reported outcomes. Patient\u2010reported use of exercise and\u00a0diet as arthritis treatments were added to the quality indicator eligibility criteria as a sensitivity analysis. Results: Participants (n = 241) had a mean age of 67 (7) years, body mass index of 30.7 (7.5) kg\/m2 and were 77% female. The\u00a0overall pass rate was 42.9% using the BC OA criteria, and 49.3% in the sensitivity analysis. Individual quality indicator pass\u2010rates\u00a0ranged from 4.3% for non\u2010ambulatory function to 85.7% for ambulatory function assessments. The sensitivity analysis increased\u00a0pass\u2010rates for advice to exercise (61.9%\u201369.3%) and advice to lose weight (27.9%\u201335.1%). Pass\u2010rates were not driven by demographic, social, or patient\u2010reported factors. Conclusions: Over half of individuals with mild\u2010to\u2010moderate knee osteoarthritis did not receive recommended core treatments\u00a0in the Maritimes, highlighting a need to improve care for this patient group. Quality indicators should be routinely evaluated to\u00a0determine whether clinical care aligns with best practice guidelines. doi:\u00a010.1002\/msc.70047<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":null,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"default","_twitter_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type":"default","_pinterest_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"default","_medium_share_type":"default","_threads_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"pathwp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3929"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3931,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3929\/revisions\/3931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanticpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}