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| Traditional hip and knee replacement are less likely to need revision | | Author(s) | Zosia Kmietowicz |
| Journal title | British Medical Journal, vol 337, no 7669, 6 September 2008 |
| Pages | p 534 |
| Source | http://www.bmj.com |
| Keywords | Musculoskeletal diseases ; Orthopaedics. |
| Annotation | Brief news article that reports on a study which tracked more than 150,000 people who underwent a hip or knee replacement by the National Health Service (NHS) in England between April 2003 and September 2006, in order to study the performance of joint replacements according to the type of prosthesis used. It found that, overall, only one in 75 patients (1.4%) needed revision of their hip or knee operation in the three years after initial surgery, but the percentage needing revision varied with the procedure used. The study was published in the journal, PLoS Medicine, (vol 5, no 8) under the title "Revision rates after primary hip and knee replacement in England between 2003 and 2006" by Sibanda, Copley, Lewsey, et al (2008). The website of PLoS Medicine should allow free access to the journal article :. (http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request... (KJ/RH) |
| Accession Number | CPA-081007202 A |
| Classmark | CL: LKB |
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