Peat, G, Thomas, E, Handy, J, Wood, L, Dziedzic, K, Myers, H, Wilkie, R, Duncan, R, Hay, E, Hill, J and Croft, P (2004) The Knee Clinical Assessment Study--CAS(K). A prospective study of knee pain and knee osteoarthritis in the general population. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 5. 4 -?. ISSN 1471-2474

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Knee pain affects an estimated 25% of the adult population aged 50 years and over. Osteoarthritis is the most common diagnosis made in older adults consulting with knee pain in primary care. However, the relationship between this diagnosis and both the current disease-based definition of osteoarthritis and the regional pain syndrome of knee pain and disability is unclear. Expert consensus, based on current evidence, views the disease and the syndrome as distinct entities but the clinical usefulness of these two approaches to classifying knee pain in older adults has not been established. We plan to conduct a prospective, population-based, observational cohort study to investigate the relative merits of disease-based and regional pain syndrome-based approaches to classification and prognosis of knee pain in older adults. METHODS: All patients aged 50 years and over registered with three general practices in North Staffordshire will be invited to take part in a two-stage postal survey. Respondents to this survey phase who indicate that they have experienced knee pain within the previous 12 months will be invited to attend a research clinic for a detailed assessment. This will consist of clinical interview, physical examination, digital photography, plain x-rays, anthropometric measurement and a brief self-complete questionnaire. All consenting clinic attenders will be followed up by (i) general practice medical record review, (ii) repeat postal questionnaire at 18-months.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: This is the final published version. It is available online via BioMed Central at http://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-5-4 - please refer to any applicable terms of use of the publisher.
Uncontrolled Keywords: aged, data collection, humans, knee, middle aged, osteoarthritis, knee, pain, prospective studies
Subjects: R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC925 Diseases of the musculoskeletal system
Divisions: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Primary Care Health Sciences
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Depositing User: Symplectic
Date Deposited: 27 Mar 2017 11:38
Last Modified: 21 Aug 2018 15:08
URI: https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/3079

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