You'll know when you're ready: A qualitative study exploring how patients decide when the time is right for joint replacement surgery

Medicine and Dentistry

• Consultation 20%
• Deterioration 20%
• Identified Patient 20%
• Joint Replacement 100%
• Lifespan 20%
• Orthopedic Surgeon 20%
• Prosthesis 20%
• Quality of Life 20%
• Surgeon 20%
• Total Arthroplasty 100%

Nursing and Health Professions

• Deterioration 20%
• Health Practitioner 20%
• Hospital Admission 20%
• Orthopedic Surgeon 20%
• Prosthesis 20%
• Quality of Life 20%
• Replacement Arthroplasty 100%
• Thematic Analysis 20%
• Total Arthroplasty 100%

Keyphrases

• Feelings of Being 20%
• Good Shape 20%
• Internal Senses 20%
• Mental Preparation 20%
• Mental Readiness 20%
• Physical Preparation 20%
• States of Being 20%
• Total Joint Replacement Surgery 100%