Research Article

A Cost-Utility Analysis of Robotic Arm-Assisted Total Hip Arthroplasty: Using Robotic Data from the Private Sector and Manual Data from the National Health Service

Table 3

Change in the EQ-5D score according to patient demographics, preoperative functional scores, and type of total hip arthroplasty (robotic arm-assisted versus non-robotic arm-assisted).

DemographicDescriptiveCorrelation/difference (95% CI) value

Sex (n, % of group)MaleReference
FemaleDiff 0.045 (−0.012 to 0.101)0.121

AgeCorr 0.007 (−0.077 to 0.090)0.873

Preoperative PROMs
 OHSCorr −0.345 (−0.416 to −0.269)<0.001
 FJSCorr −0.247 (−0.324 to −0.167)<0.001
 EQ-5DCorr −0.679 (−0.722 to −0.631)<0.001
 EQ-VASCorr −0.155 (−0.235 to 0.072)<0.001

rTHA (n, % of group)NoReference
YesDiff −0.095 (−0.200 to 0.11)0.078

Chi-square test, Pearson’s correlation, PROMs: patient-reported outcome measures.