Clinical trials: Total Joint Replacement Surgery
Osteoarthritis
Feasibility Study: Effect of Patient Decision Aids for Total Joint Replacement on Surgical Referrals
Ministries of Health consider wait lists for total joint replacement a top priority. Research priorities to manage wait lists indicate the need to establish benchmarks that consider patient preferences.
- Trial name
- NCT00743951
- Testing
- 1 Patient decision aid, 2 Usual care
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 142 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Osteoarthritis, Knee
Conventional Alignment System Versus Surgical Navigation System in Total Knee Arthroplasty
This is a randomized, controlled, blinded prospective study comparing the use of the usual cutting guides with a palm-sized digital surgical navigation system in unilateral total knee arthroplasty.
- Trial name
- NCT01797731
- Testing
- Digital hand-held surgical navigation system, Conventional tibial extramedullary alignment system
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 100 people
- Sponsor
- Hospital for Special Surgery, New York