The effect of care transition pathway implementation on patients undergoing joint replacement during the COVID-19 pandemic: a quasi-experimental study from a tertiary care hospital orthopedic department in Beijing, China

Table 1 Characteristics of the respondents (N = 96)

Characteristic	Categories	CG (N = 51)	OG (N = 45)	χ²	P value*
Gender	Male	18	16	0.001^a	0.979
Gender	Female	33	29	0.001^a	0.979
Age (years)	< 60	21	17	0.115^a	0.734
Age (years)	≥ 60	30	28	0.115^a	0.734
Highest education level attained	Junior high school education or below	37	33	0.162^b	1.000
	Technical secondary school/high school	11	9
	College or above	3	3

CG, control group; OG, observation group; TKA, total knee arthroplasty; UKA, unicompartmental knee arthroplasty; THA, total hip arthroplasty
^aPearson chi-square
^bFisher’s exact test
*P values were calculated using the χ² method

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