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Factors influencing return to work after hip and knee replacement
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Factors influencing return to work after hip and knee replacement

Ajay Malviya, Graeme Wilson, Benjamin Kleim, Steven Kurtz and David Deehan
Occupational medicine (Oxford), v 64(6), pp 402-409
01 Jan 2014
PMID: 25146049
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https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqu082View
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Abstract

Arthritis joint replacement occupational rehabilitation qualitative
Background Return to employment is one of the key goals of joint replacement surgery in the working-age population. There is limited quantitative and qualitative research focusing on return to work after hip and knee replacement. It remains unclear why certain groups of patients are not able to achieve sufficient functional improvement to allow productive return to work while others can. Very little is known about the individual patient and employer perspectives in this regard.Aims To review current evidence for the factors influencing employment outcomes in patients undergoing hip and knee replacement.Methods Original articles and reviews in Medline, Embase and PsycINFO from 1987 to 2013 were included in the analysis.Results Age, patient motivation, employment before surgery and type of job were found to be important factors in determining return to work following hip and knee replacement.Conclusions There is a need for further qualitative work on how and why these factors influence employment outcomes.

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