Table 4.

Patients’ absence from work (in days)

Characteristics	Althausen et al.	Shields et al.	Nicholson et al.
Patient missed from work
Operative	8	196	22
Non-operative	35	69	24
Family member missed from work
Operative	3	N	N
Non-operative	7
When released to full duty
Operative	36	N	N
Non-operative	61

N, not presented or calculated