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. 2013 Mar 23;37(7):1257–1261. doi: 10.1007/s00264-013-1862-0

Table 1.

Univariate analysis between preoperative, radiologic, perioperative criteria and patients’ satisfaction

Variables Total (%) Satisfied (n = 849) Dissatisfied (n = 147) Level of significance (p)
Pre-operative criteria
Female 658 (66 %) 66 % 68 % 0.638b
Age [years] 69 67 0.069a
BMI 31 31 0.535a
Comorbidity (ASA 3–4) 192 (23 %) 24 % 21 % 0.870b
Living alone 246 (33 %) 32 % 35 % 0.571b
Opioid use 39 (6 %) 5 % 9 % 0.156b
Depression 75 (9 %) 9 % 8 % 1.0b
Post traumatic arthritis 64 (7 %) 6 % 7 % 0.855b
Rheumatoid arthritis 82 (8 %) 8 % 8 % 1.0b
Limited ROM 270 (34 %) 34 % 31 % 0.862b
Charnley score 1 662 (77 %) 77 % 78 % 0.799b
Radiologic criteria
Level of arthritis (K/L) grade 4 481 (54 %) 57 % 34 % <0.001b
Mechanical leg axis [°] 3 2 0.101a
Perioperative criteria
Implant PFC 845 (85 %) 85 % 84 % 0.619b
Use of computer navigation 699 (70 %) 71 % 67 % 0.329b
Use of epidural catheter 453 (56 %) 57 % 52 % 0.411b
Postoperative leg axis [°] 0 0 0.163a

ROM range of motion, BMI body mass index

Bold values indicate statistical significance

a Two-tailed Students t-test

b Chi-squared test