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Table 1.

Summary of Key Health Literacy, Patient Expectations, and Clinical Outcomes Findings.

Summary of Key Findings
• The relationship between health literacy, preoperative expectations, and patient subjective outcomes has been well described. • Several patient and injury specific variables, such as increased age and defect size, may be useful to predict patient-reported outcomes (PROs) following cartilage repair or restoration procedures. • Currently, there is a paucity of literature that identifies specific patient demographic variables or PROs that predict patient satisfaction following cartilage restoration. • Future reproducible, efficient point of care education tools may significantly affect preoperative expectations, patient satisfaction, and PROs following articular cartilage surgery.

Summary of Key Findings

• The relationship between health literacy, preoperative expectations, and patient subjective outcomes has been well described.
• Several patient and injury specific variables, such as increased age and defect size, may be useful to predict patient-reported outcomes (PROs) following cartilage repair or restoration procedures.
• Currently, there is a paucity of literature that identifies specific patient demographic variables or PROs that predict patient satisfaction following cartilage restoration.
• Future reproducible, efficient point of care education tools may significantly affect preoperative expectations, patient satisfaction, and PROs following articular cartilage surgery.