A method for determining success following total hip replacement surgery.

The success of a total hip replacement surgery, using the hip evaluation form, was investigated in 2 groups of surgical patients which differed in terms of relative success of surgery. For the men, the group which did not respond as well to surgery had less education and were more retired individuals; this group also had more pain, less ambulation, and greater functional handicaps prior to surgery. For the women, there were no significant differences between the groups with regard to the demographic variables and the hip evaluation measures prior to surgery. The Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory administered following surgery suggests that the women who did not respond as well to surgery had more physical symptoms, anxiety, depression, and difficulties in relating to people.