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Table 2: continued Total Hip Arthroplasty
Total Knee Arthroplasty
THA/
TKA Weingarten et al. (6)
Employed (yes/no)
Return to work within 30 days of admission
TKA :
Baseline period: 29 employed (25%)
Feedback intervention period: 68 employed (40%)
TKA :
Baseline period: 81% return to work > 30 days
Feedback intervention period: 83% return to work > 30 days
Not measured
Lyall et al. (22)
Employment status: a. employed, b. unemployed (reasons: knee pain, retirement, other)
Employment status (employed/unemployed)
41/56 employed (11 manual, 30 non-manual job)
40 of 41 preoperatively employed patients went back to work within 6 months; None of the 15 unemployed pre-operative, returned to work after surgery (1 for other reasons than knee complaints)
Average 10 weeks (range 6-25 weeks) in 40/41 who returned to work; All returned within 6 months.
Lombardi et al. (25)
Not measured
Recorded time elapsed to return to work (weeks)
Not measured
Not measured
Average 8.0 weeks (SD 5.6, range 0-32)
Definition of work status pre-operatively
Definition of work status postoperatively
Work situation prior to surgery
Work situation after surgery
Time to return to work
Definition of work status pre-operatively
Definition of work status postoperatively
Work situation prior to surgery
Work situation after surgery
Time to return to work
Duration of unemployment preoperatively (months)
Length of time taken to resume work (weeks)
15/56 patients unemployed (12 manual jobs, 3 non- manual jobs; 9 unemployed due to knee pain, 3 retired, 3other health problems); Average duration of preoperative unemployment 33 months (21-58 months),
Type of work usually performed (manual or non- manual)
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