ArticleJournal of occupational rehabilitation2025
Return to Work Following Hip or Knee Arthroplasty: A One-Year Prospective Cohort Study in Participants with Direct Referral from Hospital to Occupational Health Care Services.
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- Pooled it
- Longterm Persistence and Scalability of a Coordinated Return to Work Model in Healthcare: A Registry-Based Study Across Clinical Pathways.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Return to Work after Surgical Treatment of Osteochondral Defects of the Talus: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Cartilage · 2026Article
- Return to work after periacetabular osteotomy: workload as a determinant of occupational trajectories.Bone & joint open · 2026Article
- Coordinated Return-to-Work model reduces sickness absences after hip or knee arthroplasty: a registry-based study.Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery · 2026Article
- Prediction of Inpatient Rehabilitation Length, Discharge Destination and Home-Care Needs After Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty for Osteoarthritis: A Follow-Up Study on 1.679 Patients.Journal of clinical medicine · 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
- Sickness absences and losses in productivity-adjusted life years before, during and after the most common orthopedic surgical procedures among employed individuals in Finland.BMC health services research · 2025Observational
- The Association of Waiting Time with Postoperative Health Care Use and Sickness Absences: A Register Study in Finland.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Return to work and resumption of driving after anterior minimally invasive total hip arthroplasty.World journal of orthopedics · 2025Article
- Referring psychiatric patients to occupational health services for earlier return to work - a qualitative implementation study of barriers and facilitators.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- The impact of telework on absenteeism, presenteeism, and return to work among workers with health conditions: a scoping review.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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Abstract
purposeIn a new Finnish Coordinated Return to Work (CRTW) model, patients are referred to occupational health care after hip or knee arthroplasty. This study evaluated the CRTW model's effect on return to work (RTW), activities used in occupational health care and in the workplace, and the patient- and work-related factors affecting early RTW.
methods209 participants with occupational health care service underwent primary hip (THA) or total/unicondylar knee (KJA) arthroplasty and completed self-reported questionnaires after arthroplasty and at time of RTW. Factors affecting RTW, and the roles of occupational health care and the workplace in RTW were evaluated. Time to RTW was determined as days between the arthroplasty and RTW.
resultsMean time to RTW was 69 days after THA and 87 days after KJA. For easing RTW, work arrangements were made for 56% of the participants. The most utilized adjustments of work were enabling remote work and arranging limitations in work tasks. Participants with earlier RTW had lower physical workload, higher professional status and motivation to work, less pre-arthroplasty sick leave, and more positive personal expectations about the time to RTW compared to participants with later RTW (p < 0.001 for all). The linear regression and dominance analyses showed participants' own expectations and pre-arthroplasty sick leave as the strongest factors affecting time to RTW.
conclusionsThe CRTW model seems to shorten time to RTW after THA and KJA. Occupational health care and workplace play important roles in supporting RTW. Patients' own expectations should be noted when giving pre-arthroplasty information.
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