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The Bone & Joint Journal
Vol. 99-B, Issue 5 | Pages 566 - 576
1 May 2017
van der Velden CA Tolk JJ Janssen RPA Reijman M

Aims

The aim of this study was to assess the current available evidence about when patients might resume driving after elective, primary total hip (THA) or total knee arthroplasty (TKA) undertaken for osteoarthritis (OA).

Materials and Methods

In February 2016, EMBASE, MEDLINE, Web of Science, Scopus, Cochrane, PubMed Publisher, CINAHL, EBSCO and Google Scholar were searched for clinical studies reporting on ‘THA’, ‘TKA’, ‘car driving’, ‘reaction time’ and ‘brake response time’. Two researchers (CAV and JJT) independently screened the titles and abstracts for eligibility and assessed the risk of bias. Both fixed and random effects were used to pool data and calculate mean differences (MD) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) between pre- and post-operative total brake response time (TBRT).