PURPOSE OF REVIEW Participation in alternative payment models has focused efforts to improve outcomes and patient satisfaction while also lowering cost for elective hip and knee replacement. The purpose of this review is to determine if preoperative education classes for elective hip and knee replacement achieve these goals. RECENT FINDINGS Recent literature demonstrates that patients who att...

OBJECTIVE Evaluate content and educational delivery methods of preoperative education in total joint arthroplasties of the hip and knee (THA and TKA) addressing postoperative pain. DATA SOURCES Systematic searches conducted on Biomed Central, BMJ.com, CINAHL, the Cochrane Library, NLM Central Gateway, OVID, ProQuest (Digital Dissertations), PsycInfo, PubMed/Medline, ScienceDirect, and Web of ...

BACKGROUND Preoperative education is a common feature of the preoperative preparation for many surgical procedures. It is anticipated that this education will result in beneficial outcomes for the patient. Many studies have evaluated the effectiveness of different formats used to deliver the information, and the effect of this information on a variety of outcomes.While there has been substantia...

BACKGROUND With declining reimbursement to health care systems, face-to-face time between patients and providers to optimize preoperative education and counseling may be challenging. OBJECTIVE Because high patient anxiety prior to surgery has been linked to more severe and persistent pain after joint replacement surgery, the Orthopedic Surgery Department at Mayo Clinic in Florida created a pl...