The Center for Outcomes-Based Orthopaedic Research (COOR) is the longest standing department at SPRI. The team has been tracking and studying patient outcomes for over thirty years, and is now tracking over 47,000 surgeries in the COOR database. The team has collected over 185,000 subjective patient questionnaires and has over 150,000 unique patients included in the database.
COOR tracks patient outcomes following their orthopaedic treatments. In studying these outcomes, the team is able to validate the efficacy of surgical techniques, therapies and other medical treatments. COOR partners closely with The Steadman Clinic physicians, who use the database to aid in diagnosis and treatment selection. Patients also benefit from the database, as physicians can offer recovery expectations based in concrete data. One of COOR’s primary responsibilities is producing long-term outcomes studies, including studies on the pioneering techniques of SPRI’s Founder, Dr. J. Richard Steadman and Chair, Dr. Marc J. Philippon.
COOR is involved in each of SPRI’s clinical trials and is integral in the publication of SPRI’s papers. The outcomes data in COOR’s database supports The Steadman Clinic’s mission of practicing evidence-based medicine—treatments and techniques that are backed by research. Physicians from all over the world look to COOR’s evidence-based medicine research to inform their clinical decision making.
As a partner to the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC), COOR has been instrumental in organizing the past six Injury Prevention Symposium events. The annual event connects leading scientists, researchers and clinicians from all over the world to engage on topics related to injury prevention and protecting the health of athletes.
