Total hip replacement - College of Occupational Therapists

Appendix 5: Evidence- based review tables
Source Design and participants Intervention Outcomes Results Quality and comment
Bohm (2010) Prospective cohort study
Aim: to investigate the impact
of total hip replacement on a
service user’s work ability
84 service users on waiting list
who were in work preoperatively
(working age only)
Response rate 54/60 at the one
year follow- up. Not all data
provided by respondents
Return to work group:
Mean age 49.9 years
Male: female ratio = 21:19
Not returning to work group:
Mean age 60.3 years
Male: female ratio = 1:5
Canada.
Total hip replacement. Self- administered
questionnaire emailed to
participants at 12 months
post- operatively
Measures varied and
included employment
status aspects, physical
function, hip function,
job motivation and
satisfaction, workplace
demands and flexibility
and productivity.
• 38 out of 44 service users who
were working pre- operatively had
returned to work one year postoperatively
(86%)
• Only one service user attributed
stopping work to the hip condition
(2%)
• 34 out of the 38 service users who
returned to work returned to
doing the same job
• Two of the ten service users who
were off work pre- operatively had
returned to work 1 year postoperatively
(20%). Those who
were working pre- operatively
returned to work at a much higher
rate than those not working preoperatively
(p