Towards UK poSt Arthroplasty Follow-up rEcommendationsː UK SAFE (WP2b)
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Towards UK poSt Arthroplasty Follow-up rEcommendations: UK SAFE (WP2b - Prospective study)
IRAS ID
220316
Contact name
Philip Conaghan
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Leeds
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 5 months, 3 days
Research summary
After a hip or knee replacement, some patients are offered a periodic check-up (referred to as ‘follow up’) and others are not. It is not known if this will make any difference to the outcome of knee or hip replacement surgery. This research will investigate if individual patient-centred follow-up can better identify potential problems, to the benefit of all concerned.
Total joint replacement provides considerable improvement in quality of life to people suffering with severe joint damage and in 2013 over 170,000 total hip and knee replacements were conducted in England and Wales, this number is likely to increase each year. Follow-up care is provided to ensure that any problems are identified as early as possible to plan for further surgery. Providing this care for everyone in the years after their surgery is expensive and the NHS is under increasing pressure to reduce its costs. Many hospitals have dramatically reduced the amount of follow-up appointments and some provide no follow-up at all. More research is needed to find out if problems get missed if there is no routine follow-up care. This study will help us to understand the different ways that people get to the point of further surgery on their hip or knee replacement.
REC name
North West - Haydock Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
17/NW/0469
Date of REC Opinion
2 Aug 2017
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion