Characteristics of People with Hip or Knee Osteoarthritis Deemed Not Yet Ready for Total Joint Arthroplasty at Triage
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Characteristics of People with Hip or Knee Osteoarthritis Deemed Not Yet Ready for Total Joint Arthroplasty at Triage
PURPOSE To identify the characteristics of people with hip or knee osteoarthritis (OA) attending a regional triage centre for an initial consult who are deemed not yet ready for total joint arthroplasty (TJA). METHODS Initial consultation notes (n=482) were reviewed retrospectively. Predictive variables were derived from the literature a priori, and 14 of these variables were suitable for inc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physiotherapy Canada
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0300-0508,1708-8313
DOI: 10.3138/ptc.2014-59