Content and delivery of pre-operative interventions for patients undergoing total knee replacement: A rapid review

Anderson, Anna M., Drew, Benjamin T., Antcliff, Deborah, Redmond, Anthony C., Comer, Christine, Smith, Toby O. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-2954 and McHugh, Gretl A. (2022) Content and delivery of pre-operative interventions for patients undergoing total knee replacement: A rapid review. Systematic Reviews, 11. ISSN 2046-4053

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Abstract

Background: Total knee replacement (TKR) is a common operation typically performed for end-stage knee osteoarthritis. Patients awaiting TKR often have poor health-related quality of life. Approximately 20% of patients experience persistent pain post-TKR. Pre-operative TKR interventions could improve pre- and post-operative outcomes, but future research is required to inform their design. This review aimed to identify and synthesize recent literature on the content and delivery of pre-operative TKR interventions to help guide future research and clinical practice. Methods: This rapid review included randomized trials of pre-operative TKR interventions (‘outcomes studies’) and primary studies exploring patients’ and/or health professionals’ views of pre-operative TKR interventions (‘views studies’). Medline, Embase, PsycINFO, CINAHL and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials were searched for English language studies published between January 2009 and December 2020. Eligible studies’ reference lists were screened. Studies were appraised using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool. The findings were narratively synthesized using a convergent segregated approach. Results: From 3263 records identified, 52 studies were included (29 outcomes studies, 21 views studies, two outcomes/views studies). The studies’ methodological quality varied but was generally highest in qualitative studies. The outcomes studies investigated education (n=5), exercise (n=20), psychological (n=2), lifestyle (n=1) and/or other interventions (n=5). The views studies addressed education (n=20), exercise (n=3), psychological (n=1), lifestyle (n=4) and/or other interventions (n=1). Only three outcomes studies (two randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and a pilot study) compared the effectiveness of intervention components/delivery approaches. The two RCTs’ results suggest that pre-operative TKR exercise interventions are equally effective regardless of whether they include strength or strength plus balance training and whether they are hospital- or home-based. Personal tailoring and using more than one delivery format were associated with improved outcomes and/or perceived as beneficial for multiple intervention types. Conclusions: Definitive evidence on the optimal design of pre-operative TKR interventions is lacking. Personal tailoring and employing multiple delivery formats appear to be valuable design elements. Preliminary evidence suggests that including balance training and hospital versus home delivery may not be critical design elements for pre-operative TKR exercise interventions.

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Additional Information: Funding: Anna Anderson, Clinical Doctoral Research Fellow, ICA-CDRF-2018-04-ST2-006, is funded by Health Education England (HEE) / National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) for this research project. This paper presents independent research supported by the NIHR Leeds Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). Professor Redmond is an NIHR Senior Investigator. The views expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NIHR, NHS or the UK Department of Health and Social Care. The funding body had no role in the study design, collection analysis and interpretation of data or writing the manuscript.
Uncontrolled Keywords: total knee replacement,total knee arthroplasty,pre-operative education,education,prehabilitation,exercise,rapid review,total knee arthroplasty,pre-operative care,medicine (miscellaneous) ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2700/2701
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Health Sciences
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Population Health
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Date Deposited: 07 Jul 2022 16:30
Last Modified: 19 Oct 2023 03:22
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/86013
DOI: 10.1186/s13643-022-02019-x

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