Abstracts Posters SICOT-SOF meeting Gothenburg 2010 _2_

Poster
Topic: Arthroplasty - Hip
Abstract number: 25329
INFLUENCE OF ETHNICITY ON PATIENT REPORTED OUTCOME AFTER TOTAL
HIP REPLACEMENT
Ferid KRUPIC, Johan KÄRRHOLM, Göran GARELLICK
Department of Orthopaedics, Mölndal (SWEDEN)
We hypothesized that patients born abroad and patients with low income report lower
quality of life according to EQ-5D and benefit less from the surgical procedure. Preoperative
and one-year post-operative data from Swedish Hip Arthroplasty Register,
including 1309 patients (1317 hips) with primary osteoarthritis of the hip operated
between years 2002 and 2006 were analyzed. All patients completed the EQ-5D
form, filled in a VAS scale about pain and Charnley class pre-operatively and at one
year post-operatively, when a VAS scale about overall satisfaction was added.
Information about country of birth, living alone/married or cohabiting and income was
provided by the Swedish tax office.Patients born in Sweden had better life quality and
less pain and were more satisfied one year after the operation than those born
abroad (p