Musculoskeletal and other clinicians often treat patients presenting with bilateral indications – osteoarthritis in both knees for example.  Relatedly, a patient treated for OA in only one shoulder is likely to require treatment for the other soon.  However, there are typically material differences in the clinical assessments, interventions and patient reported outcomes for each anatomical area.  This poses a challenge in the efficient capture of data related to bilateral diagnoses, treatments, and outcome follow-up.      

These challenges are now accommodated through a major new Circles capability – Bilateral Surveys.  Whether on a mobile or desktop device, practitioners or their staff can now easily capture in a single survey diverse clinical datapoints for each bilateral anatomical area.  Similarly, patients can report outcomes on standardized or custom assessments for both areas in a single survey.

This amplifies the statistical and clinical significance of aggregated datasets, since the clinical and outcomes data associated with each anatomical area are reported separately.  It also allows a clinician or researcher to utilize one anatomical area as a control in the context of a study.

Contact us to find out more about Bilateral Surveys and their use cases.