Fixed-Bearing, Medial Unicondylar Knee Arthroplasty Rapidly Improves Function and Decreases Pain –<i>A Prospective, Single-Surgeon Outcomes Study</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Fixed-bearing, medial unicondylar knee arthroplasties were performed in 33 knees (32 patients). We report a minimum 2-year follow-up, with a mean follow-up of 3 years. Kaplan-Meier survivorship analysis reported 97% survivorship at a mean follow-up of 38 months. Average preoperative Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) pain scores improved significantly from 40+/-22 to 92+/-15 (P<.0001). Average preoperative Knee Society knee and function scores improved significantly from 52+/-7 to 90+/-9 (P<.0001) and from 48+/-16 to 84+/-17 (P<.0001), respectively. In addition, average Short Form-12 Physical Component scores significantly increased. Overall stiffness and physical function assessed via the WOMAC index also exhibited significant improvement. Of note, all categories of the WOMAC Index and the Knee Society scores experienced statistically significant improvements at 3-month follow-up, indicating a rapid return to improved function and diminished pain.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".