Table 1.
Category | Variable | Degrees of Freedom (df) | Levels |
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Patient Demographics | Age (years) | 1 | continuous |
Gender | 1 | male, female | |
Body Mass Index (BMI) | 1 | continuous | |
Baseline activity level (Marx) | 1 | continuous | |
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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 |