Task: Answer Verification
Input (English): Question: Do patient-reported allergies cause inferior outcomes after total knee arthroplasty?
Answer: Patients with at least one self-reported allergy have worse post-operative outcomes in terms of the WOMAC and KSS-Knee scores after TKA than patients without allergies. These poor outcomes do not seem to be related to depression. Therefore, more research is needed to explain them. Reported allergies could be considered a prognostic factor and used when counselling TKA patients.
Output (English): yes