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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Sports Med. 2015 Apr 21;43(7):1616–1622. doi: 10.1177/0363546515578838

Table 1.

List of Modeling Variables

Category Variable Degrees of Freedom (df) Levels

Patient Demographics Age (years) 1 continuous
Gender 1 male, female
Body Mass Index (BMI) 1 continuous
Baseline activity level (Marx) 1 continuous

Surgical Information Revision number 1 1, 2 or more
Prior graft type 3 autograft (BTB), autograft (soft tissue), allograft, other/unknown
Alignment 1 continuous
Meniscal pathology
 * medial 1 intact, disrupted
 * lateral 1 intact, disrupted
Articular cartilage pathology 2 grades 0/1 (“normal”), grades 2/3 (“intermediate”), grade 4 (“advanced”) on at least one surface