Multi-centre modified Delphi exercise to identify candidate items for classifying early-stage symptomatic knee osteoarthritis
An erratum to this article was published (Osteoarthritis Cartilage, Apr 2025 ↗)
Authors' conclusion
We identified 77 items that OA experts consider potentially useful for EsSKOA classification. The results highlight experts' uncertainty around item usefulness.
Study context
- Population
- Osteoarthritis (OA) clinicians and researchers ("OA experts")113 (88%) completed all rounds
- Participants
- 128 clinicians
- Outcome
- Candidate items retained (median usefulness score >5 and ≥33.3% rating the item useful [7 to 9]) for Early-stage Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis (EsSKOA) classification
- Follow-up
- After Round 3
Methodological detailsthree-round, online, international, multicentre
- Three-round
- Online
- International
- Multicentre
Recommendations
As reported in the abstract
Items retained for EsSKOA classification
- Items retained, spanning demographics, symptoms, physical exam, performance-based measures, imaging, laboratory investigations, gross inspection/arthroscopy
- 77
- Prior knee joint injury, median usefulness score
- 8
- Diagnosis of OA in a different joint, median usefulness score
- 7
- Activity-related knee pain, median usefulness score
- 7
- Most frequent IQR
- 3
Original publication
Multi-centre modified Delphi exercise to identify candidate items for classifying early-stage symptomatic knee osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis Cartilage. Published 8 November 2024. doi:10.
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