What Matters to Patients With Severe Hip or Knee Osteoarthritis?
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Vejle Hospital
- Where
- Denmark3 sites in 1 countryChoose a country to see its sites
- Trial code
- Status
- Completed
- People taking part
- 615 people enrolled
- Started
- 11 Oct 2023
- Ended
- 11 Jul 2026
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets no study treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- Shared decision-making supported by an in-consultation PtDA to patients with severe osteoarthritis in their hip or knee
- Record updated
- 24 September 2026
Who can take part
- Age
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- Women and men
- Healthy volunteers
- Cannot take part
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Severe primary osteoarthritis eligible for primary total hip arthroplasty (THA) / primary total knee arthroplasty (TKA) / primary partial knee arthroplasty (UKA)
- Able to understand and read Danish
- Informed consent
Who cannot take part
- Previous THA, TKA, or UKA on the contralateral side
- Cognitive impairment
- Non-OA-related reason for the visit
- No digital mailbox (E-boks)
This trial has no sites in United States.
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About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
This clinical trial aims to investigate if shared decision-making, and the use of an in-consultation patient decision aid (PtDA), increases the decisional quality and therefore treatment satisfaction and outcome of patients with severe hip or knee osteoarthritis.
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Finally, an evaluation will be conducted on patient-reported outcomes on pain, physical function, quality of life (QoL), and patient satisfaction, up to one year after surgery.
The 2 groups in the trial
- Shared decision-making (SDM)Treatment being tested
Patients will be informed by a nurse before being consulted by the surgeon randomized to SDM and use the in-consultation PtDA during the consultation on patients with severe hip or knee osteoarthritis
Treatment: Shared decision-making supported by an in-consultation PtDA to patients with severe osteoarthritis in their hip or knee
- Usual practiceNo study treatment, for comparison
Patients will be informed by a nurse before being consulted by the surgeon randomized to usual practice during the consultation on patients with severe hip or knee osteoarthritis
Data and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- What Matters to Patients With Severe Hip or Knee Osteoarthritis? Decisional Quality, Patient Involvement and Health Outcome
- Record updated
- 24 September 2026