Frequency of Weight Loss Instruction for Osteoarthritis

Raw data that was pulled from secure storage site (REDCap) and has been de-identified. Associated with the manuscript "Frequency of Weight Loss Instruction Provision to Patients with Obesity and Hip or Knee Osteoarthritis: a Case-Series". Please see the methods of this manuscript to understand the data acquisition and analysis processes used. Our data from a single tertiary medical center demonstrates that for obese patients being managed conservatively for knee or hip osteoarthritis, they are offered weight loss methods significantly less than other methods, including pharmacotherapy and physical therapy. When patients were further stratified by BMI, we found that patients in the highest BMI subgroup (>40 kg/m2) were instructed on weight reduction methods at a significantly higher rate than other patients. Overall, our data demonstrates that weight loss often isn't offered to obese patients as a part of comprehensive conservative care of knee or hip osteoarthritis, but that the frequency of weight loss instruction improves in patients with more severe obesity. This highlights a need to identify barriers to the delivery and implementation of weight loss instruction to obese patients with hip or knee osteoarthritis.