Oxford hip and knee scores deteriorate in patients awaiting lower limb arthroplasty during the COVID-19 pandemic and predict a health state 'worse than death'.

Bone Jt Open · 2023 · PMC10032236 · PMID 37051855

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did not reach statistical significancep = 0.062so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

The mean OKS for the smaller UKA group deteriorated from 18.00 (SD 10.91) to 14.09 (SD 10.37), but this did not reach statistical significance (p = 0.062, paired t -test).

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