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Table 8 Other pre-operative total knee replacement treatments: Importance ratings summary

From: Consensus on pre-operative total knee replacement education and prehabilitation recommendations: a UK-based modified Delphi study

Other pre-operative total knee replacement treatment itema

% Important or Very Important rating

Round 1 (n = 60)

Round 2 (n = 57)

Round 3 (n = 55)

5.1 Patients who have a BMI of 27 kg/m2 or over should be referred to a weight management programme

67

67

73

5.2 Patients who have been formally diagnosed anxiety or depression should be offered CBT-based therapy

67

74

78

5.3 Patients should be offered motivational interviewing

38

37

33

5.4 Patients should be offered neuromuscular electrical stimulation

17

5

4

5.5 Patients should be offered electro-acupuncture

8

0

0

  1. BMI Body Mass Index
  2. CBT Cognitive behavioural therapy
  3. a Consensus was defined as at least 70% of respondents rating an item as ‘Important’ or ‘Very important’. Items in italics did not reach consensus in Round 3 and hence were excluded from the final list of recommendations. Items in plain text were prioritised as ‘Important’
  4. Additional File 2 provides the exact wording of each item