Meditation and Opioid Consumption in Total Joint Replacement Patients Undergo Primary Total Hip and Knee Replacement

Length of stay

Monitoring how long the patient was in the hospital

Time frame: Recorded at time of discharge (up to 4 days post-operatively)

Discharge to extended care facilities

Recording where the patient was discharged too

Time frame: Recorded at time of discharge (up to 5 days post-operatively)

Hospital readmission

Recording whether or not the patient was readmitted to the hospital

Time frame: 90 days post-operatively

PROMIS mental health score

PROMIS mental health survey. The measures are generic, rather than disease-specific, and use an "In General" item context as it is intended to globally reflect individuals' assessment of their health. It is a survey of 10 questions which gives a physical health and mental health score. The raw global health mental score (4-20) is converted to a mental health T score (16.2-67.7). The higher the score, the better the health outcome.

Time frame: 90 days post-operatively

PROMIS physical health score

PROMIS physical health survey. The measures are generic, rather than disease-specific, and use an "In General" item context as it is intended to globally reflect individuals' assessment of their health. It is a survey of 10 questions which gives a physical health and mental health score. The raw global health physical score (4-20) is converted to a physical health T score (16.2-67.7). The higher the score, the better the health outcome.

Time frame: 90 days post-operatively

KOOS Jr Score

KOOS JR survey. The KOOS, JR contains 7 items from the original KOOS survey. Items are coded from 0 to 4, none to extreme respectively. KOOS, JR is scored by summing the raw response (range 0-28) and then converting it to an interval score using the table provided below. The interval score ranges from 0 to 100 where 0 represents total knee disability and 100 represents perfect knee health.

Time frame: 90 days post-operatively