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.本数据集的原始数据提取自安全存储平台REDCap，且已完成去标识化处理。本数据集关联的学术论文为《肥胖合并髋或膝骨关节炎患者减重指导的提供频率：病例系列研究》。请参阅该论文的方法学部分，以了解本数据集所采用的数据采集与分析流程。本数据集的数据源自单个三级医疗中心，结果显示：针对接受膝或髋骨关节炎保守治疗的肥胖患者，为其提供减重干预手段的比例显著低于药物治疗、物理治疗等其他治疗手段的比例。当按身体质量指数（BMI）对患者进行进一步分层后，我们发现BMI最高亚组（>40 kg/m²）的患者获得减重指导的比例显著高于其他亚组患者。总体而言，本研究数据表明，在膝或髋骨关节炎肥胖患者的综合保守治疗方案中，减重指导往往未被纳入，但随着患者肥胖程度加重，减重指导的提供频率会有所提升。该结果凸显了开展相关研究的必要性，即明确向髋或膝骨关节炎肥胖患者提供减重指导时存在的实施障碍。