Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of arthroscopic lavage in the treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee: a mixed methods study of the feasibility of conducting a surgical placebo-controlled trial (the KORAL study)
Campbell MK, Skea ZC, Sutherland AG, Cuthbertson BH, Entwistle VA, McDonald AM, Norrie JD, Carlson RV, Bridgman S, KORAL study group
Record ID 32010000106
English
Authors' recommendations:
Study found that although, in principle, a placebo-controlled trial of arthroscopic lavage could be conducted in the UK, because of the difficulty involved and a falling use of arthroscopic lavage, it was agreed not to proceed to full-scale trial
Details
Project Status:
Completed
URL for project:
http://www.hta.ac.uk/1448
Year Published:
2010
English language abstract:
An English language summary is available
Publication Type:
Not Assigned
Country:
England, United Kingdom
MeSH Terms
- Anesthesiology
- Attitude of Health Personnel
- Attitude to Health
- Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Feasibility Studies
- Focus Groups
- Informed Consent
- Multicenter Studies as Topic
- Needs Assessment
- Orthopedics
- Patient Selection
- Pilot Projects
- Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
- Research Design
- Technology Assessment, Biomedical
- Arthroscopy
- Osteoarthritis, Knee
- Therapeutic Irrigation
Contact
Organisation Name:
NIHR Health Technology Assessment programme
Contact Address:
NIHR Journals Library, National Institute for Health and Care Research, Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre, Alpha House, University of Southampton Science Park, Southampton SO16 7NS, UK
Contact Name:
journals.library@nihr.ac.uk
Contact Email:
journals.library@nihr.ac.uk
Copyright:
2010 Queen’s Printer and Controller of HMSO
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