Occupational medicine
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Occupational medicine · Sep 2014
Review Historical ArticleFactors influencing return to work after hip and knee replacement.
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. ⋯ There is a need for further qualitative work on how and why these factors influence employment outcomes.