Which patients improve most after total hip arthroplasty? Influence of patient characteristics on patient-reported outcome measures of 22,357 total hip arthroplasties in the Dutch Arthroplasty Register.

CONCLUSIONS: Patients benefiting most in terms of postoperative improvement of self-reported physical functioning, pain relief and quality of life after primary THA were young, female, with a high ASA or BMI score, and without previous operations to the hip. PMID: 32290706 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32290706?dopt=Abstract

Source: Hip International - April 13, 2020 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Peters RM, van Steenbergen LN, Stewart RE, Stevens M, Rijk PC, Bulstra SK, Zijlstra WP Tags: Hip Int Source Type: research