Inclusion Criteria: | Exclusion Criteria: |
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▪ Scheduled to undergo primary TKA at BWH | ▪ Osteoarthritis is not the underlying diagnosis (e.g. inflammatory arthritis) |
▪ Osteoarthritis is the principal underlying diagnosis | ▪ Psychological issues that preclude participation, as identified by participating surgeons |
▪ Age ≥ 40 years at the projected date of TKA | ▪ Dementia |
▪ English-speaking | |
▪ Non-English speaker | |
▪ Age < 40 at the projected date of TKA | |
▪ Lives in a nursing home (difficult to track costs) | |
▪ Implantation of unicompartmental knee arthroplasty or interpositional arthroplasty (different clinical features and different costs) | |
▪ Bilateral TKA (simultaneous, staged or planned within 6 months) |