Clinical and radiological outcomes after management of traumatic knee dislocation by open single stage complete reconstruction/repair

Table 5 Stepwise regression analysis on several outcome variables: Adjusted R square of the entire model, and significant influence.

	SF 36 total	VAS pain	VAS satis-faction	Knee Society score	Tegner score^&	Secondary surgery	Need for workers compensation
Adjusted R Square	0.09	0.25	0.21	0.16	0.47	0.41	0.24
Block 1: Age and gender
Age at injury
Time since injury					-**	+***
Gender
Block 2: Concomitant aspects
Physical profession
Education	+^t	-**	+**	+**	+*	-**	-*
Tegner preinjury					+***
Smoking					-**
Block 3: Number of injuries
Medial side injuries		-**	+**	+**	+**		-*
Lateral side injuries
Peroneal nerve injury	-^t	+^t				+^t	+*
Block 4: Type of surgery
ACL reconstruction
PCL reconstruction

^&Time since injury and Tegner preinjury explain R² = .34; ^tp < 0.1, *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001

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