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. 2013 Oct 12;14:290. doi: 10.1186/1471-2474-14-290

Table 1.

AViKA study inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria: Exclusion Criteria:
▪ Scheduled to undergo primary TKA at BWH
▪ Osteoarthritis is not the underlying diagnosis (e.g. inflammatory arthritis)
▪ Osteoarthritis is the principal underlying diagnosis
▪ Psychological issues that preclude participation, as identified by participating surgeons
▪ Age ≥ 40 years at the projected date of TKA
▪ Dementia
▪ English-speaking
 
▪ Non-English speaker
 
▪ Age < 40 at the projected date of TKA
▪ Lives in a nursing home (difficult to track costs)
▪ Implantation of unicompartmental knee arthroplasty or interpositional arthroplasty (different clinical features and different costs)
  ▪ Bilateral TKA (simultaneous, staged or planned within 6 months)