Surgeons are poor predictors of the benefits from meniscus and cartilage procedures

Surgeons Not Good at Predicting Benefit From Knee Operations (MedScape)
Surgeons are no better at determining which patients might benefit from operations to treat torn knee cartilage than if they just flipped a coin, a new study suggests.
Researchers surveyed 194 surgeons to see whether they would recommend arthroscopic partial meniscectomy (APM) or exercise therapy in 20 test cases with middle-aged patients who had tears in the meniscus.
Researchers created test cases based on actual patients to see whether the surgeons could accurately predict who would benefit the most, or least, from s...