Occupational capacity after hip replacement.
Working capacity and dependence on the social welfare system were analyzed in 387 patients 5 years after hip replacement. Significant pre-operative factors were age, etiology of the hip disease and walking ability, and at the follow-up age, walking ability, pain and subjective experience of satisfaction with the operation. Among patients working pre-operatively, 92 per cent kept on working, and 70 per cent of patients on sick-leave went back to work. Only 9 per cent of patients working or sick-listed pre-operatively became invalidity pensioners, but none who were pensioners pre-operatively went back to work.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003718:Denmark; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D006621:Hip Joint / Q000502:physiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D006622:Hip Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D008124:Locomotion; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012946:Social Welfare; D014938:Work Capacity Evaluation