When has a knee or hip replacement failed? A patient perspective.

CONCLUSION: Lack of relief of pain or restoration of function or quality of life or the occurrence of surgical complications after TJR were defined as TJR failure by participants. Functional TJR failure seems as or more important than surgical failure. This patient perspective of TJR failure further confirmed their inclusion in core domain set for TJR clinical trials in people undergoing knee or hip replacements. PMID: 31787606 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Rheumatology - Category: Rheumatology Tags: J Rheumatol Source Type: research