Use of non-surgical treatments on the journey to knee replacement in patients with knee osteoarthritis: a 10-year population-based case–control study

Aim To investigate temporal trends in primary care visits, physiotherapy visits, dispensed non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and opioids in knee osteoarthritis (OA) patients who have and have not undergone knee replacement.Methods We analysed 5665 OA patients from the Skåne Healthcare R...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: George Peat, Dahai Yu, Martin Englund, Aleksandra Turkiewicz, Andrea Dell'Isola, Geraint Thomas, Clara Hellberg, Tom Appleyard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2023-07-01
Series:RMD Open
Online Access:https://rmdopen.bmj.com/content/9/3/e003422.full