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Is Arthroscopic Meniscectomy Associated With an Increased Risk of Total Knee Arthroplasty for Claimants in the Workers' Compensation System? A 10-Year Study of Workers' Compensation Claims From a Large Nationwide Workers' Compensation Insurance Carrier.
J Occup Environ Med
April 2024
From the Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland (N.F.T., E.J.B., R.A.L., N.K., L.Y., N.L., X.T.); AF Group, Lansing, MI (D.L.H.); General Electric, Norwalk, Connecticut (N.K.); Corporate Administration Office, Strategy, Enterprise Risk, and Research, Louisiana Workers' Compensation Corporation, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (L.Y.); Texas Mutual, Workers' Compensation Insurance, Austin, Texas (N.F.T., N.L.). University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (J.G.-M.).
Background: Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is a commonly performed knee surgery and prior arthroscopic meniscectomy (AM) has been linked to an increased risk of TKA in the general population.
Objective: To study the relationship between AM and TKA among injured workers whose medical care is paid for under workers' compensation (WC).
Method: A total of 17,247 lost-time claims depicting all arthroscopic knee surgical procedures performed from 2007 to 2017 were followed to the end of 2022 and analyzed.