Treatment Preferences of Patients with Early Knee Osteoarthritis: A Decision Board Analysis Assessing High Tibial Osteotomy versus the KineSpring^® Knee Implant System

INTRODUCTION: Decision boards can be useful in shared decision making by helping patients and their physicians choose among treatment options. Two surgical treatments for early knee osteoarthritis (OA) are high tibial osteotomy (HTO) and the KineSpring® Knee Implant System. The primary objective of this study was to determine patient preferences between these two treatments using a decision board. METHODS: We developed a decision board that …