Question

How postoperative orthopedic patient are related to community epidemiology, community resources, and identify assessment/measurement tools?

Answer 1

The post operative orthopaedic patient are related to the community epidemiology by the risk factors present in the community in the delivery of care post operatively and during follow up. It enable to identify how the patient adjusts themselves to the external environment and to new challenges.

The community resources for these patients are the availability of the CAT services.Here healthcare professionals visits the patient in the community and follow up care , education are delivered.

Patient outcomes satisfaction tool, Pain score tool, Outcome measure tool are some of the common tool used to assess patient after orthopaedic surgery.