Figure 1From: Cost effectiveness of total knee arthroplasty from a health care providers' perspective before and after introduction of an interdisciplinary clinical pathway - is investment always improvement? Illustration of the sequential cohort design first consecutively recruiting patients, who underwent total knee arthroplasty (TKA) before implementation of a critical pathway on TKA, and then recruiting 128 patients, who underwent TKA after pathway implementation (the latter being stratified for attendance of a personal briefing as a voluntary part of the pathway post-hoc during exploratory analysis of the cohorts' clinical data).Back to article page