Impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on patient-reported outcome measures in Dutch hip and knee arthroplasty patients

Background and purpose: During the first COVID-19 lockdown elective surgery was greatly reduced. Prioritization of patients with greater need and expected benefit in terms of quality of life was advised. The lockdown also potentially affected follow-up outcomes. Therefore, our study compared patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) retrieved during the lockdown of Dutch primary total hip and knee arthroplasty (THA, TKA) patients with previous years. Patients and methods: We performed cross-sectional analyses using national data from the Dutch Orthopaedic Registry (LROI). All primary elective... Mehr ...