A significant proportion of patients (15 to 45%) who have benefited from a total hip or knee replacement surgery (THKA), are put on sick leave (SL). This SL allows these patients who had a professional activity at the time of the intervention (age \<65 years) to enhance the healing, improve the quality of life and ensure a functional return to work. The number of patients returning to work and the time taken to return to work after the intervention are d depending on the intervention (hip or knee) and are linked to socio-demographic factors, to the patient's general condition (comorbidity, presence of other arthritis joints…) and the type of professional activity. Studies evaluating the impact of the type of professional activity on the return to work after THKA are nonexistent in France, rare in the literature, mostly retrospective and methodologically weak. In addition, the individual and socioeconomic impact of the cessation of work after an THKA, the absence of national data assessing the predictive nature of socio-professional categories on the return to work using a multivariate analysis motivated us to set up this study.
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Identification of socio-professional categories according to the PCS-ESE 2017 classification which would influence the return to work.
Timeframe: Through study completion, an average of 21 months