Incidence of Obscure Knee Injuries and Use of Non-Specific Knee Diagnoses in a Large Government Health System — Clinical Epidemiology

Rhon D, Yuan X, Barlow B, Konitzer L, Cook C

Within a large government health system, to assess the practice of using non-specific diagnoses for knee disorders and determine how often they appear as the only diagnosis without more specificity. The secondary purpose was to identify the incidence of obscure knee disorders diagnosed: pes anserine bursitis, prepatellar bursitis, pigmented villonodular synovitis, and plica syndrome.

Rhon, Daniel & Yuan, Xiaoning & Barlow, Brian & Konitzer, Lisa & Cook, Chad. (2022). Use of Non-Specific Knee Diagnoses and Incidence of Obscure Knee Injuries in a Large Government Health System. Clinical Epidemiology. Volume 14. 1123-1133. https://doi.org/10.2147/CLEP.S375040