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Race, age, socioeconomic status predict risk of ACL reconstruction after injury
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Researchers of this study concluded that 22.6% of patients with an ACL injury underwent ACL reconstruction within 3 years of injury.
“Less than a quarter of patients with a diagnosed ACL injury underwent ACL reconstruction in the 3 years after diagnosis,” Jamie E. Collins, MA, and colleagues wrote in the study abstract.
The study included 2,304 patients with an ACL injury treated between 2001 and 2007 at a tertiary health care center. Patient characteristics, such as gender, age, race, primary language, health insurance status and socioeconomic status, were examined through multivariate logistic regression models.
Collins and colleagues noted that 86% of patients who underwent ACL reconstruction did so within 6 months of injury and 94% underwent reconstruction within 1 year, according to the abstract. Male gender, white race, higher socioeconomic status and private health insurance were independent risk factors for ACL reconstruction.
Disclosure: This study was funded in part by grants from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases and from Harvard Catalyst/The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center.
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