Perceptions and experiences around TJA.Participants' perceptions and experiences around TJA are described in Table 2. Participants' felt that TJA candidates should be extremely disabled by their arthritis. For example, most participants felt TJA was indicated in the setting of inability to climb stairs (81.3%), severe pain uncontrolled by pain killers (92.9%), and walking limited to in-house only (87.6%). However, significantly fewer participants felt it would be indicated in the setting of great difficulty climbing stairs (68.3%), severe pain controlled by pain killers (48.8%), or walking limited to <1 block (62.3%). Although they felt the arthritis disability needed to warrant TJA should be extreme, they felt that appropriate candidates should be in good general health otherwise: 71.2% felt TJA was appropriate for someone with excellent, very good, or good health compared with only 30.9% who felt it was appropriate for someone in fair health. Most perceived that, following recovery from TJA, individuals would walk unaided (76.1% versus 21.6% who felt individuals would usually walk with a cane), have none or very mild pain in the replaced joint (87.2% versus 12.0% who felt there would be moderate pain), and experience a significant improvement in their quality of life (72.7% versus 26.1% who felt that quality of life would be only somewhat improved). More than 80% felt the potential risk of death or of revision TJA were acceptable, and 71.2% were accepting of the potential for major complications.
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