Quality indicators indicate good adherence to the clinical practice guideline on "Osteoarthritis of the hip and knee" and few prognostic factors influence outcome indicators: a prospective cohort study.

Abstract

and Quality indicators showed that a group of well-informed physical therapists could to a large extent adhere to key recommendations of the guideline and that clinically relevant improvements were obtained in terms of pain and physical functioning. Prognostic factors for poorer outcome on outcome indicators were comorbidity, a higher pain score at baseline and the combination ">12 months' duration of complaints and age ≥65".