Table 2 Patient outcomes by group for all patients referred into the Hip and Knee pathway: surgery or self-management
From: Evaluating a pre-surgical health optimisation programme: a feasibility study
Non-health optimisation pathwaya | Health optimisation pathwaya | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Accepted referral to Healthy Lifestyles Service | Did not accept referral to Healthy Lifestyles Service | All health optimisation patients (accepted referral & did not accept referral combined) | ||||||
(n=318) | (n=51) | (n=133) | (n=184) | |||||
Referred for surgery | 179 | 56.3% | 25 | 49.0% | 81 | 60.9% | 106 | 57.6% |
Completed physiotherapy | 155 | 86.6% | 88 | 83.0% | ||||
Referred for self-management | 103 | 32.4% | 17 | 33.3% | 31 | 23.3% | 48 | 26.1% |
Completed physiotherapy | 94 | 91.3% | 37 | 77.1% | ||||
No onward referral: | 36 | 11.3% | 9 | 17.6% | 21 | 15.8% | 30 | 16.3% |
Never joined the pathway | 22 | 6.9% | 13 | 7.1% | ||||
Dropped out of pathway | 9 | 2.8% | 14 | 7.6% | ||||
Still in the pathway | 4 | 1.3% | 2 | 1.1% | ||||
Died | 1 | 0.3% | 1 | 0.5% | ||||
Duration of physiotherapy (months)b, median (IQR) | 1.8 | (1.5, 2.3) | 4.1 | (3.8, 4.4) | 3.7 | (1.8, 4.1) | 3.9 | (2.1, 4.2) |
Length of hospital stay (days)c, median (IQR) | 3 | (2, 3) | 3 | (2,4) | ||||