TY - JOUR
T1 - Self-reported assessments of quality of life after total knee arthroplasty
AU - Paterniti, Debora A.
AU - Price, Matt D.
AU - Haidet, Paul
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - To understand quality of life after knee replacement, researchers must consider the total functional and social burden for patients. This article reports the results of a prospective study to understand patients' subjective perspectives of quality of life during total knee replacement surgery and healing. Data were collected through longitudinal interviews, patients' diaries, and standardized measures of quality of life. The findings include that problems of living undermine older patients' assessments of quality of life. They suggest that the events that bear on healing require a process analysis rather than sequential measurement.
AB - To understand quality of life after knee replacement, researchers must consider the total functional and social burden for patients. This article reports the results of a prospective study to understand patients' subjective perspectives of quality of life during total knee replacement surgery and healing. Data were collected through longitudinal interviews, patients' diaries, and standardized measures of quality of life. The findings include that problems of living undermine older patients' assessments of quality of life. They suggest that the events that bear on healing require a process analysis rather than sequential measurement.
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U2 - 10.1177/15394492020220s112
DO - 10.1177/15394492020220s112
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0036173621
SN - 0276-1599
VL - 22
SP - 81S-82S
JO - Occupational Therapy Journal of Research
JF - Occupational Therapy Journal of Research
IS - SUPPL. 1
ER -