Table 12: GRADE Profile For question: Should primary total hip or knee replacement patients receive inpatient or outpatient home-based physiotherapy after discharge from the acute care hospital setting?
| Quality Assessment | Summary of Findings | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comparison (Study) |
Design | Quality | Consistency | Directness | Other modifying factors |
No. of Subjects | Effect | Quality | Outcome | |
| Inpatient | Home-based | Relative (95%CI) |
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| Physical Functioning (measured with the WOMAC at 1 year) | ||||||||||
| (Mahomed et al. (21)) | RCT | No serious limitations |
Only 1 study | No uncertainty |
None | 115 | 119 | N/A | ⊕⊕⊕⊕ | Critical |
| Quality GRADE |
High | High | High | High | High | High | ||||