Nurse Led Follow-up After Total Knee Arthroplasty (NFTKA)

University of Southern Denmark (SDU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Osteoarthritis

Treatments: Behavioral: Telephone follow-up

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01771315

R108-A2423 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

UNR-2013112-4

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to determine the effect of nurse led follow-up following total knee arthroplasty in regard to physical function, health related quality of life and self-efficacy.

Full description

Due to shorter hospitalization the patients early have to be responsible for their own rehabilitation. However, the patients experience a variety of health related problems in the rehabilitations period following total knee arthroplasty and they have difficulties transferring health related information to their home settings. Nurse led follow-up in the early rehabilitation period might improve the health status of the patients by improving their knowledge and skills to handle health related problems. No studies found has investigated the effect of nurse led follow-up in form of telephone call following total knee arthroplasty.

Enrollment: 117 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• primary first-time total knee arthroplasty due to osteoarthrosis
• followed conventional admission course and discharged ≤ 4 days after surgery
• understand and talk Danish
• signed informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• in terminal phase of another serious illness such as i.e. cancer with expected lifetime less than 6 months
• previous total hip replacement

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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117 participants in 2 patient groups

telephone follow-up

Experimental group

Description:

Nurse led follow-up in form of consultation by telephone 4 days and 2weeks after discharge, respectively as a supplement to conventional admission course.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Telephone follow-up

Usual treatment

No Intervention group

Description:

All patients follow conventional admission course which implies preoperative seminar and a discharge planning consultation on the day of discharge. The patients are discharged to home, referred to physiotherapy in the community and a scheduled follow-up by the surgeon after 3 month in the orthopedic outpatient clinic.