Total hip arthroplasty: Use and select complications in the US Medicare population

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 70-72

  Baron, John A ^a   Barrett, Jane ^a   Katz, Jeffrey N ^b   Liang, Matthew H ^b  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RACE DIFFERENCE; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030034827     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.86.1.70     Document Type: Article

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