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Patient's memory or repeated pain and function scores as index for major clinical change caused by knee replacement?

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Change of the clinical condition is the aim of replacement of the knee. This has at least four components: a clinical phenomenon, an event for the phenomenon, size of the event and time for the event. This study dealt with major change of pain and function at the time of remission. The agreement between the patient's opinion of change and a clinical change score was poor. That a special index of changes is needed is shown in this study.

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  1. Department of Orthopaedics, Karolinska Institute, Södersjukhuset, S-11883, Stockholm, Sweden

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Barck, A.L. Patient's memory or repeated pain and function scores as index for major clinical change caused by knee replacement?. Arch Orthop Trauma Surg 116, 484–485 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00387582

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