Patient Expectations of Total Shoulder Arthroplasty

Shoulder: Arthroplasty


Preoperative Patient Expectations of Total Shoulder Arthroplasty


Henn RF III, Ghomrawi H, Rutledge JR, et al (Hosp for Special Surgery, NY) J Bone Joint Surg Am 93:2110-2115, 2011§



J. Sperling, MD



Evidence Ranking


• B



Expert Rating


• 3



Abstract



Background


Very little data exist regarding patients’ preoperative expectations of the outcome of total shoulder arthroplasty. We hypothesized that younger patients and patients with worse function and worse general health would have greater expectations of total shoulder arthroplasty.



Methods

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