Participant recruitment, enrollment, and randomization
KOA
RECRUITMENT
Participants will be recruited from the orthopedic clinics at HSS in Manhattan, New York. The target sample will be 74 patients. To enroll 74 participants, we expect to screen 500 individuals with KOA who are scheduled to undergo TKR. We will monitor recruitment success including screen failure rates, to inform the design of the planned larger study to follow this one. Patients who meet the inclusion criteria will be contacted by research staff and invited to join the study. Once a patient meets the criteria and we have obtained informed consent, they will be scheduled for their first data collection visit, either in person or virtually, with a blinded research assistant, and subsequently randomized. Block randomization will be used in REDCap to randomize participants to either the 