ReplacedHipOur methodology

Trust & methodology

How ReplacedHip builds its answers

ReplacedHip is for people considering hip replacement, preparing for surgery or finding their way through recovery. It brings patient experiences into a structured, transparent format without presenting them as medical advice.

Patient experience data

From source material to a short answer

Forum material is not a representative survey. Contributors are self-selected, information is often incomplete, and different questions require different analysis units.

  1. 01

    Collect

    Relevant patient and forum material is preserved privately with source-level traceability.

  2. 02

    Separate

    Questions, first-person experiences, advice, third-party stories and medical claims are kept distinct.

  3. 03

    Curate

    Potentially relevant material is checked manually before it becomes a published patient finding.

  4. 04

    Deduplicate

    Repeated posts and identifiable repeated experiences are handled so one account is not counted several times.

  5. 05

    Define

    Each question uses the most defensible analysis unit. A count may represent people, surgery courses, experience units or thread groups.

  6. 06

    Synthesize

    The answer shows both shared patterns and meaningful differences without turning the material into a universal recovery timeline.

What the numbers mean

The denominator follows the question

People or surgery courses

Used only when individual people or separate operations can be identified reliably.

Experience units

Used when the material supports a distinct, relevant experience but not a verified person count.

Thread groups

Shows how widely the evidence is distributed and prevents one large discussion from looking like many independent sources.

A larger evidence base and a wide observed span can strengthen confidence that variation is real. They do not create one precise “normal” recovery timeline.

Medical information

Patient experience and professional context stay separate

Medical claims are not drawn from forum discussions. ReplacedHip prioritizes clinical guidelines, public health services and established professional organisations such as NICE, NHS, AAOS and AAHKS.

  • Patient accounts describe what someone says they experienced.
  • Forum advice and explanations are not treated as verified medical facts.
  • Professional context is labelled separately and linked to its source.
  • Your own surgical, discharge and rehabilitation instructions take priority.
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Editorial review

How pages are reviewed and updated

ReplacedHip checks wording against the documented evidence behind each answer. Counts are shown only with a defined analysis unit, uncertainty is retained, and raw usernames or technical source identifiers are not published.

Medical information pages show their last reviewed and last updated dates. Patient-experience answers are revised when a new manual curation materially changes the evidence—not simply to make a page appear newer.

Editorial responsibility
ReplacedHip
Method page last updated
August 20, 2026
Medical review claim
None