PMID- 38058510 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20231220 IS - 2472-7245 (Electronic) IS - 2472-7245 (Linking) VI - 8 IP - 4 DP - 2023 Oct-Dec TI - Assessment of Residual Pain and Dissatisfaction in Total Knee Arthroplasty: Methods Matter. LID - 10.2106/JBJS.OA.23.00077 [doi] LID - e23.00077 AB - BACKGROUND: Residual pain after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) refers to knee pain after 3 to 6 months postoperatively. The estimates of the proportion of patients who experience residual pain after TKA vary widely. We hypothesized that the variation may stem from the range of methods used to assess residual pain. We analyzed data from 2 prospective studies to assess the proportion of subjects with residual pain as defined by several commonly used metrics and to examine the association of residual pain defined by each metric with participant dissatisfaction. METHODS: We combined participant data from 2 prospective studies of TKA outcomes from subjects recruited between 2011 and 2014. Residual pain was defined using a range of metrics based on the WOMAC (Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index) pain score (0 to 100, in which 100 indicates worst), including the minimal clinically important difference (MCID) and patient acceptable symptom state (PASS). We also examined combinations of MCID and PASS cutoffs. Subjects self-reported dissatisfaction following TKA, and we defined dissatisfied as somewhat or very dissatisfied at 12 months. We calculated the proportion of participants with residual pain, as defined by each metric, who reported dissatisfaction. We examined the association of each metric with dissatisfaction by calculating the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and Youden index. RESULTS: We analyzed data from 417 subjects with a mean age (and standard deviation) of 66.3 +/- 8.3 years. Twenty-six participants (6.2%) were dissatisfied. The proportion of participants defined as having residual pain according to the various metrics ranged from 5.5% to >50%. The composite metric Improvement in WOMAC pain score >/=20 points or final WOMAC pain score /=50%. CONCLUSIONS: Different metrics provided a wide range of estimates of residual pain following TKA. No estimate was both sensitive and specific for dissatisfaction in patients who underwent TKA, underscoring that measures of residual pain should be defined explicitly in reports of TKA outcomes. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Therapeutic Level III. See Instructions for Authors for a complete description of levels of evidence. CI - Copyright (c) 2023 The Authors. Published by The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Incorporated. All rights reserved. FAU - Musbahi, Omar AU - Musbahi O AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-4095-0989 AD - Orthopedic and Arthritis Center for Outcomes Research, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. AD - Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. AD - Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom. FAU - Collins, Jamie E AU - Collins JE AD - Orthopedic and Arthritis Center for Outcomes Research, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. AD - Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. AD - Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. FAU - Yang, Heidi AU - Yang H AD - Orthopedic and Arthritis Center for Outcomes Research, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. AD - Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. FAU - Selzer, Faith AU - Selzer F AD - Orthopedic and Arthritis Center for Outcomes Research, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. AD - Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. AD - Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. FAU - Chen, Antonia F AU - Chen AF AD - Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. AD - Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. FAU - Lange, Jeffrey AU - Lange J AD - Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. AD - Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. FAU - Losina, Elena AU - Losina E AD - Orthopedic and Arthritis Center for Outcomes Research, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. AD - Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. AD - Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts. FAU - Katz, Jeffrey N AU - Katz JN AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-2104-4670 AD - Orthopedic and Arthritis Center for Outcomes Research, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. AD - Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. AD - Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. AD - Department of Epidemiology, Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20231206 PL - United States TA - JB JS Open Access JT - JB & JS open access JID - 101726219 PMC - PMC10697603 COIS- Disclosure: The Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest forms are provided with the online version of the article (http://links.lww.com/JBJSOA/A577). EDAT- 2023/12/07 06:42 MHDA- 2023/12/07 06:43 PMCR- 2023/12/06 CRDT- 2023/12/07 04:06 PHST- 2023/12/07 06:43 [medline] PHST- 2023/12/07 06:42 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/12/07 04:06 [entrez] PHST- 2023/12/06 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - JBJSOA-D-23-00077 [pii] AID - 10.2106/JBJS.OA.23.00077 [doi] PST - epublish SO - JB JS Open Access. 2023 Dec 6;8(4):e23.00077. doi: 10.2106/JBJS.OA.23.00077. eCollection 2023 Oct-Dec.