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Table 2 Mean (standard deviation) health outcome scores of patients before and after surgery*

From: Evaluation of health outcomes in osteoarthritis patients after total knee replacement: a two-year follow-up

 

Pre-surgery

Six-months follow-up

Two-years follow-up

SF-36

   

   Physical functioning

32.7(20.2)

55.4(23.4)

59.8(23.6)

   Role physical

38.8(40.7)

71.9(41.5)

68.9(42.7)

   Bodily pain

41.7(14.3)

47.6(18.0)

40.9(14.0)

   General health

56.1(8.9)

56.2(9.0)

52.2(8.3)

   Role emotional

81.2(38.6)

96.8(16.2)

93.3(23.8)

   Social functioning

52.8(14.0)

54.3(15.6)

51.0(9.7)

   Vitality

56.4(12.8)

56.2(13.4)

55.9(11.2)

   Mental health

64.7(10.2)

65.9(11.4)

65.5(8.7)

Oxford Knee Score

49.1(16.9)

77.7(15.4)

83.1(13.5)

Knee Society Clinical Rating Scale

   Knee score

47.5(16.0)

85.0(12.3)

89.1(5.9)

   Functioning score

46.2(20.1)

62.4(22.0)

67.3(21.6)

  1. *The GEE does not provide a global p-value to test whether the means were the same across all three time periods, however the p-values comparing 6 months and 12 months vs. pre-op were both < 0.0001.