Content and delivery of pre-operative interventions for patients undergoing total knee replacement: a rapid review

Table 1 Eligibility criteria

	Outcomes studies	Views studies
Studies	Randomized trial (involve individual or cluster randomized allocation) Published as a full text in English between January 2009 and December 2020	Primary study of any design Published as a full text in English between January 2009 and December 2020
Participants^a	Adults (aged ≥18 years) listed for primary TKR surgery^b	Adults (aged ≥18 years) with experience of TKR care as: - a patient who is listed for and/or has undergone primary TKR surgery^b - a health professional with experience of any phase of the primary TKR pathway e.g. nurses, physiotherapists etc.
Interventions/comparator/outcomes/phenomena of interest	Include an intervention group that received a non-pharmacological pre-operative TKR intervention^c Include at least one comparator group that received no pre-operative TKR interventions, standard care and/or an alternative pre-operative TKR intervention Assess at least one patient outcome (including patient-reported outcomes, objectively measured clinical outcomes, patient healthcare utilization and patient harms)	Explore participants’ experiences and/or perspectives of at least one non-pharmacological pre-operative TKR intervention component or delivery approach^c (Studies providing purely descriptive accounts of non-pharmacological pre-operative interventions components and delivery approaches were excluded)
Context	No limitations	No limitations

TKR total knee replacement
^a Studies with mixed samples were only included if they reported at least one relevant finding separately for participants who met the criteria specified, and/or at least 80% of participants met the criteria specified [29]
^b No limitations regarding patients’ indication for TKR were applied
^c Pre-operative TKR interventions were defined as interventions delivered solely in the pre-operative phase of the TKR pathway (the period between when a patient is listed for TKR surgery and the day they are admitted to hospital to undergo surgery [30]). Studies investigating an intervention delivered during more than one phase of the TKR pathway were excluded

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