ArticleRheumatology international2015
Return to work after total hip and knee arthroplasty: results from a clinical study.
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Socio-professional Categories and Return to Work After Hip or Knee Replacement Surgery
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Return to work following primary total hip arthroplasty: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2023Pooled it
- High Rates of Return to Sports Activities and Work After Osteotomies Around the Knee: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2017Pooled it
- What Is Important to the Younger Person (≤50 Years) When Having a Total Hip Arthroplasty: A Systematic Literature Review.Orthopedic nursingPooled it
- Occupational advice to help people return to work following lower limb arthroplasty: the OPAL intervention mapping study.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2020Trial
- Step count recovery patterns in the first six weeks after knee replacement in individuals with knee osteoarthritis: a secondary analysis of a prospective observational cohort study using wrist-worn accelerometry.Rheumatology international · 2026Observational
- Two years efficacy and safety outcomes of using allogeneic, pooled mesenchymal stromal cells for osteoarthritis of knee in a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled phase 3 study.Osteoarthritis and cartilage open · 2026Article
- Return on Investment of the Back At Work After Surgery (BAAS) Care Pathway Compared to Care-as-Usual in Knee Arthroplasty.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2025Observational
- The Effectiveness of the Back At work After Surgery (BAAS) Work-Integrated Care Pathway on Return to Work for Patients Receiving Knee Arthroplasty: A Study of Three Comparative Cohorts in the Netherlands.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Association of socioeconomic status on return to work following primary total hip arthroplasty: a Danish population-based cohort study on 9,431 patients from 2008-2018.Acta orthopaedica · 2025Article
- Return to work and resumption of driving after anterior minimally invasive total hip arthroplasty.World journal of orthopedics · 2025Article
- Are Current Patient-Reported Outcome Measures Fit for Purpose to Evaluate Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty?Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
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- Early functional recovery outcomes and return to work after primary total hip arthroplasty: a novel patient reported outcomes questionnaire.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2024Article
- Return to Work after Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty: The First Polish Pilot Retrospective Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Protocol for a multicenter study on effectiveness and economics of the Back At work After Surgery (BAAS): a clinical pathway for knee arthroplasty.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2023Article
- Feasibility of a preoperative strengthening exercise program on postoperative function in patients undergoing hip or knee arthroplasty: a pilot randomized controlled trial.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2022Article
- Psychosocial Working Conditions Play an Important Role in the Return-to-Work Process After Total Knee and Hip Arthroplasty.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2022Article
- A Patient and Public Involvement Study to Explore the Need for Further Research into the Experience of Younger Patients Undergoing Total Hip Arthroplasty.Journal of patient experience · 2022Article
- Patients return to work sooner after unicompartmental knee arthroplasty than after total knee arthroplasty.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2020Article
- Development of an occupational advice intervention for patients undergoing elective hip and knee replacement: a Delphi study.BMJ open · 2020Article
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Abstract
The aim of this study was to measure return to work and duration until return to work in patients undergoing total hip or knee arthroplasty (THA or TKA). This prospective study included patients under 65 years of age, undergoing THA or TKA, who provided information on their work status preoperatively (paid work yes/no and working hours) and 1 year thereafter (paid work yes/no, working hours and time until return to work). Seventy-one THA and 64 TKA patients had a paid job preoperatively. The employment rates 1 year postoperatively were 64/71 (90 %) after THA and 53/64 (83 %) after TKA. Of those who returned to work, 9/64 (14 %) of THA patients and 10/53 (19 %) of TKA patients worked less hours than preoperatively [mean decrease of 16 (SD 11.5) and 14 (SD 13.0) hours, respectively]. The mean time to return to work was 12.5 (SD 7.6) and 12.9 (SD 8.0) weeks in THA and TKA, respectively. The majority of working patients who underwent THA or TKA returned to work, after approximately 12 weeks. A considerable proportion of the patients returning to work worked less hours than preoperatively. More research into patients who do not return or decrease their working hours is needed.
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