Improvement in Health-Related Quality of Life and Satisfaction after Hip Replacement:: A Comparison Between Patients with different Completed Levels of Schooling.

<p>Improvement in Health-Related Quality of Life and Satisfaction after Hip Replacement:: A Comparison Between Patients with different Completed Levels of Schooling.</p

Adjusted Difference in Improvement in Health-Related Quality of Life and Satisfaction after Knee Replacement::A Comparison Between Patients with different Completed Levels of Schooling.

<p>U+HVE+PHVSE: University, Higher Vocational Education and Preparatory Higher Vocational & Scientific Education; MVE+PMVE: Middle Vocational Education and Preparatory Middle Vocational Education; LVE+ES+NFE: Lower Vocational Education, Elementary Schooling and No Formal Education.</p>*<p>Negative values indicate a higher mean improvement in HRQoL after TKR in U+HVE+PHVSE patients, compared to MVE+PMVE patients.</p>**<p>Negative values indicate a higher mean improvement in HRQoL after TKR in MVE+PMVE patients, compared to LVE+ES+NFE patients.</p>***<p>Negative values indicate a higher mean improvement in HRQoL after TKR in U+HVE+PHVSE patients, compared to LVE+ES+NFE patients.</p><p>The mean differences between education level are adjusted for age, sex, Body Mass Index and Charnley Classification of Comorbidity and stratified for quartiles of follow-up.</p

Quality of Life before Knee Replacement: A Comparison Between Patients with different Completed Levels of Schooling.

<p>Quality of Life before Knee Replacement: A Comparison Between Patients with different Completed Levels of Schooling.</p

Quality of Life before Hip Replacement: A Comparison Between Patients with different Completed Levels of Schooling.

<p>Values are means (SD).</p

Adjusted Difference in Improvement in Health-Related Quality of Life and Satisfaction after Knee Replacement: A Comparison Between Patients with different Completed Levels of Schooling.

<p>Negative values indicate a higher mean improvement in HRQoL after TKR in patients with increasing Completed Levels of Schooling. The mean differences between education level are adjusted for age, sex, Body Mass Index and Charnley Classification of Comorbidity and stratified for quartiles of follow-up.</p

Improvement in Health-Related Quality of Life and Satisfaction after Knee Replacement:: A Comparison Between Patients with different Completed Levels of Schooling.

<p>Improvement in Health-Related Quality of Life and Satisfaction after Knee Replacement:: A Comparison Between Patients with different Completed Levels of Schooling.</p

Adjusted Difference in Improvement in Health-Related Quality of Life and Satisfaction after Hip Replacement: A Comparison Between Patients with different Completed Levels of Schooling.

<p>Negative values indicate a higher mean improvement in HRQoL after THR in patients with increasing Completed Levels of Schooling. The mean differences between education level are adjusted for age, sex, Body Mass Index and Charnley Classification of Comorbidity and stratified for quartiles of follow-up.</p

Follow-up Period in Years for THR and TKR patients.

<p>Vertical lines indicate quartiles of follow-up period length.</p

Patient Characteristics.

<p>Values are means (SD), unless stated otherwise.</p

Study Timeline.

<p>Study Timeline.</p