OARSI/OMERACT Initiative to Define States of Severity and Indication for Joint Replacement in Hip and Knee Osteoarthritis. An OMERACT 10 Special Interest Group

Abstract

To define pain and physical function cutpoints that would, coupled with structural severity, define a surrogate measure of "need for joint replacement surgery," for use as an outcome measure for potential structure-modifying interventions for osteoarthritis (OA).

Keywords

• OSTEOARTHRITIS
• SEVERITY
• PAIN
• FUNCTION
• STRUCTURE OUTCOME MEASURE