UMass study looks at joint replacement surgery (Telegram)
University of Massachusetts Medical School researchers are touting — in a prestigious journal — a model they have developed to better understand the outcome of total joint replacement surgeries, from the patient’s perspective.
A team of medical school researchers is in the second year of a four-year, $12 million federal grant to enroll 33,000 total joint replacement recipients in a registry and analyze the data. Researchers at the school are trying to understand what practices and circumstances contribute to a successful replacement.
So far, the school has recruited more than 100 surgeons and nearly 7,000 patients across the country. While the data collection is ongoing, a group of medical school professors described their new approach to the medical community in an article in the Sept. 26 edition of the Journal of The American Medical Association.
“What’s different about this approach is that it is patient-centered,” said Dr. David Ayers, chairman of orthopedics and physical rehabilitation at the medical school.
The medical school researchers said, while most total joint replacements are successful, the effectiveness of the...
