2022 AOSSM Annual Meeting Recordings with CME-What Have We Learned from MOON Knee?

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The speaker discusses the MOON (Multicenter Orthopaedic Outcomes Network) cohort, a 20-year study funded by the NIH, which focuses on ACL reconstruction patients. The multicenter approach was chosen to ensure a large sample size for more accurate results. The study requires extensive teamwork, expertise, and database management. Funding is critical but challenging, and presenting multivariate analyses is also a challenge. The top ten findings from the study include the cost-effectiveness and improved quality of life of ACL reconstruction, the need for further study on meniscus and articular cartilage, the potential for improved return to sport and activity level, the stability of primary outcome measures, the minority of patients developing post-traumatic osteoarthritis, the durability of ACL reconstruction over ten years, the preference for autografts over allografts, the importance of teamwork, and the absence of gender as a risk factor for ACL graft re-tear. The speaker concludes by thanking the funders and expressing gratitude for the opportunity to present. No credits were mentioned.

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Robert Marx, MD, MSc, FRCSC

Keywords

MOON cohort

ACL reconstruction patients

multicenter approach

teamwork

database management