A New Multi-disciplinary Rehabilitation Outcome Checklist for the Rehabilitation of Total Knee and Total Hip Replacement Patients

Use of clinical pathways in the rehabilitation of total knee and total hip replacement patients is on an increasing trend. However, in the literatures there was no universally agreed assessment and auditing method on the outcome of these clinical pathways. We created a new multi-disciplinary rehabilitation outcome checklist (MROC) to evaluate and audit the outcome of our patients after total joint replacement. MROC was applied in 96 total knee and 18 total hip replacement patients. The compliance rate of MROC was 100%. Most of the treatment goals of the clinical pathways were found to be fulfilled. The MROC provides an easy-to-use, free-of-charge, and tailor-made checklist for the evaluation and auditing purpose.

中文摘要臨床復康路徑應用在全膝及全髖關節置換的患者上有增加的趨勢。然而，在文獻中卻沒有普遍認同的評估和審計方法，去評審對這些臨床復康路徑的成果。我們創建了一種名為「多學科綜合性康復成果清單」的新工具，來評審這些臨床復康路徑的成果。我們把這種工具應用在96全膝關節和18個全髖關節置換的患者上。結果發現清單的遵行率是100％。大部分臨床路徑的治療目標都能達到。「多學科綜合性康復成果清單」提供了一個易於使用，免費和量身定制的評估和審計工具。