Escaping the Scalpel

ESCAPING THE SCALPEL7
Table of Contents
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Chapter 1 General introduction 10
Chapter 2 Responsiveness and Minimal Important Change of the IKDC of 22
Middle-Aged and Older Patients With a Meniscal Tear
Chapter 3 Functional Outcomes of Arthroscopic Partial Meniscectomy Versus 38
Physical Therapy for Degenerative Meniscal Tears Using a Patient-
Specific Score
Chapter 4 In patients eligible for meniscal surgery who first receive physical 58
therapy, multivariable prognostic models cannot predict who will
eventually undergo surgery
Chapter 5 An individualized decision between physical therapy or surgery for 72
patients with degenerative meniscal tears cannot be based on
continuous treatment selection markers. A marker-by-treatment
analysis of the ESCAPE study
Chapter 6 Five-year follow-up of the ESCAPE study: Physical therapy is not 92
inferior to arthroscopic partial meniscectomy in people with
degenerative meniscal tears.
A randomized clinical trial
Chapter 7 General discussion & conclusion of this thesis 118
Chapter 8 Summary of this thesis 128
Nederlandse samenvatting (Dutch summary)
Chapter 9 Appendices 138
Chapter 10 List of publications 154
Acknowledgements (Dankwoord)
About the author