Appropriateness of total hip joint replacement
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Appropriateness of total hip joint replacement.
OBJECTIVE To evaluate the appropriateness of the use of total hip joint replacements. DESIGN Observational study of consecutive patients with a diagnosis of hip osteoarthritis and who had undergone total hip arthroplasty over a 1-year period from seven hospitals. MAIN MEASURES The appropriateness of the use of hip replacement was judged by explicit criteria developed by a panel of experts u...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal for Quality in Health Care
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1464-3677,1353-4505
DOI: 10.1093/intqhc/mzi047