Primary Care Providers

A unified evidence-based approach to knee OA care.

KneeCareInsight (KCI) is an easy-to-use, reliable guide for surgical and non-surgical care. It bases its considerations for care on scientifically-proven measures of disability, radiographic grading, and age to assess the severity of OA in the knee. This is reported for you in a convenient summary that is easy to use as the basis for management. The clinical information is readily available, and the program is designed to use existing referral systems without additional cost to your practice.  It is an excellent educational tool for you to share with your patient. The reliable and reproducible technique means you can use it as needed for future evaluations as the years go on.

The KCI Advantage

  • Treatment options suited to your patients’ lifestyle, pain level, and their health status

  • Our comprehensive evaluation provides you with non-surgical and surgical treatment options for further discussions with your patients

  • We are the only Canadian clinic certified to use the digitized Oxford Knee Score ? to assess the severity of your patient’s knee OA
         Learn more at: Oxford Knee Score

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Improved patient management

The KCI evaluation provides the correct information early in the clinical encounter. Providing a detailed report specifying the stage of the disease and giving specific evidence-based recommendations, KCI empowers you to improve the care of your patients with knee OA.

Better disease analysis and understanding between you and your patient

The detailed information on knee OA severity (level of disability, accurate grading of x-ray, and age risks) provided in the KCI report, coupled with considerations for surgical and non-surgical care, is easy to review with your patient and helps you select the best options. You now have a detailed analysis and understanding of your patient’s disease, enabling you to guide them in the right direction to receive the best care at their specific stage. The KCI approach allows you to coach the patients through the disease at the pace most appropriate to your practice setting.

Enhanced communication

Given the level of detail and standardization of the KCI report, the communication between you and your patients is naturally improved. Interactions are highly guided, thus leading to better outcomes. The report accompanying the referral will ensure appropriate prioritization of the patient and acts as a baseline of information to measure disease progression over the years.

How to incorporate KCI into your practice

Identify good candidates.

For those patients suffering from knee pain and limitations due to OA, choose KCI.

Select the service.

KCI is available for your selection through our e-referral platform (here).

Follow the process.

Refer your patient to receive an x-ray of the knee with these required views. Once an x-ray confirms the presence of OA, you can directly refer the patient with the imaging to us here.

Get the report and review it with your patient.

To obtain the evaluation, KCI requires the patient completed disability questionnaire, demographics and access to x-rays. You will receive a detailed report on the stage of the disease with considerations for surgical or non-surgical care couched in simple terms. This improves communication with your patient, as you plan the next step