The impact of the pandemic on functional outcomes for joint replacement patients: An observational study.

Elective surgeries, as joint replacement, were resumed after the first COVID-19 pandemic wave in 2020 and a phase of coexistence with the virus began. Surgery was organized in a new way that incorporated procedures aimed at reducing the risk of spreading the virus. The aim of this study is to describe the early functional results for patients undergoing hip and knee replacements at the time healthcare services were being reopened and to compare them with the same outcomes recorded in the prepandemic period.

What Factors Are Associated With the Recovery of Autonomy After a Hip Fracture? A Prospective, Multicentric Cohort Study.

Objective: To identify the factors associated with recovering autonomy in activities of daily living (ADL) in patients who have had a hip fracture.

Design: A prospective cohort study.

Setting: The orthopedic and orthogeriatric departments of 2 regional hospitals.

Measuring functional performance at discharge from hospital after total joint arthroplasty as a pre-requisite for planning early rehabilitation: a prognostic study.

Background: The autonomy achieved by discharge after total knee and hip arthroplasty is important for planning early rehabilitation.

Purpose: Describe functional performance using the Iowa Level of Assistance (ILOA) scale and investigate possible prognostic factors.

Methods: A prospective cohort study design was used.

Rasch analysis of the Iowa Level of Assistance Scale in patients with total hip and knee arthroplasty.

The aim of this study was to carry out a psychometric analysis, using both Classical Test Theory and Rasch analysis (RA) methods, of the Iowa Level of Assistance Scale (ILAS) administered in patients with recent total hip arthroplasty (THA) or total knee arthroplasty, to examine its metric properties and provide insights for a refined version. A total of 203 patients who had undergone THA or total knee arthroplasty were assessed using the ILAS for assistance needed during functional activities (ILAS-funct) and need for assistive devices (ILAS-dev) before discharge from the orthopedic ward. The responses were psychometrically analyzed using the Classical Test Theory and RA.