Open carpal tunnel release and diabetes: a retrospective study using PROMs and national quality registries
Objectives To study patient-reported outcome after open carpal tunnel release (OCTR) for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) in patients with or without diabetes using national healthcare quality registries.Design Retrospective cohort study.Setting Data from the Swedish National Quality Registry for Hand S...
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| description | Objectives To study patient-reported outcome after open carpal tunnel release (OCTR) for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) in patients with or without diabetes using national healthcare quality registries.Design Retrospective cohort study.Setting Data from the Swedish National Quality Registry for Hand Surgery (HAKIR; www.hakir.se) were linked to data from the Swedish National Diabetes Register (NDR; www.ndr.nu).Participants We identified 9049 patients (10 770 hands) operated for CTS during the inclusion period (2010–2016).Primary outcome measures Patient-reported outcome measures were analysed before surgery and at 3 and 12 months postoperatively using the QuickDASH as well as the HAKIR questionnaire with eight questions on hand symptoms and disability.Results Patients with diabetes (n=1508; 14%) scored higher in the QuickDASH both preoperatively and postoperatively than patients without diabetes, but the total score change between preoperative and postoperative QuickDASH was equal between patients with and without diabetes. The results did not differ between patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes. Patients with diabetic retinopathy scored higher in QuickDASH at 3 months postoperatively than patients with diabetes without retinopathy. In the regression analysis, diabetes was associated with more residual symptoms at 3 and 12 months postoperatively.Conclusions Patients with diabetes experience more symptoms both before and after OCTR, but can expect the same relative improvement from surgery as patients without diabetes . Patients with retinopathy, as a proxy for neuropathy, may need longer time for symptoms to resolve after OCTR. Smoking, older age, higher HbA1c levels and receiving a diabetes diagnosis after surgery were associated with more residual symptoms following OCTR. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-daa05e0f8850408c8ff9fb1fecb307272025-08-20T02:32:52ZengBMJ Publishing GroupBMJ Open2044-60552019-09-019910.1136/bmjopen-2019-030179Open carpal tunnel release and diabetes: a retrospective study using PROMs and national quality registriesKatarina Eeg-Olofsson0Malin Zimmerman1Mikael Åström2Marianne Arner3Lars Dahlin43 Department of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden2 Department of Hand Surgery, Skånes universitetssjukhus Malmö, Malmo, Sweden6 Department of Data Analytics and Register Centre, Region Skåne Hälso- och sjukvård, Lund, Sweden7 HAKIR, National Registry for Hand Surgery, Stockholm South General Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden4 Department of Translational Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, SwedenObjectives To study patient-reported outcome after open carpal tunnel release (OCTR) for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) in patients with or without diabetes using national healthcare quality registries.Design Retrospective cohort study.Setting Data from the Swedish National Quality Registry for Hand Surgery (HAKIR; www.hakir.se) were linked to data from the Swedish National Diabetes Register (NDR; www.ndr.nu).Participants We identified 9049 patients (10 770 hands) operated for CTS during the inclusion period (2010–2016).Primary outcome measures Patient-reported outcome measures were analysed before surgery and at 3 and 12 months postoperatively using the QuickDASH as well as the HAKIR questionnaire with eight questions on hand symptoms and disability.Results Patients with diabetes (n=1508; 14%) scored higher in the QuickDASH both preoperatively and postoperatively than patients without diabetes, but the total score change between preoperative and postoperative QuickDASH was equal between patients with and without diabetes. The results did not differ between patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes. Patients with diabetic retinopathy scored higher in QuickDASH at 3 months postoperatively than patients with diabetes without retinopathy. In the regression analysis, diabetes was associated with more residual symptoms at 3 and 12 months postoperatively.Conclusions Patients with diabetes experience more symptoms both before and after OCTR, but can expect the same relative improvement from surgery as patients without diabetes . Patients with retinopathy, as a proxy for neuropathy, may need longer time for symptoms to resolve after OCTR. Smoking, older age, higher HbA1c levels and receiving a diabetes diagnosis after surgery were associated with more residual symptoms following OCTR.https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/9/e030179.full |
| spellingShingle | Katarina Eeg-Olofsson Malin Zimmerman Mikael Åström Marianne Arner Lars Dahlin Open carpal tunnel release and diabetes: a retrospective study using PROMs and national quality registries BMJ Open |
| title | Open carpal tunnel release and diabetes: a retrospective study using PROMs and national quality registries |
| title_full | Open carpal tunnel release and diabetes: a retrospective study using PROMs and national quality registries |
| title_fullStr | Open carpal tunnel release and diabetes: a retrospective study using PROMs and national quality registries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Open carpal tunnel release and diabetes: a retrospective study using PROMs and national quality registries |
| title_short | Open carpal tunnel release and diabetes: a retrospective study using PROMs and national quality registries |
| title_sort | open carpal tunnel release and diabetes a retrospective study using proms and national quality registries |
| url | https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/9/e030179.full |
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