Medical and financial aspects of same-day bilateral total knee arthroplasties

Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation

Volumn 33, Issue , 1997, Pages 429-434

  Kovacik, M W ^a   Singri, P ^a   Khanna, S ^a   Gradisar, I A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Arthroplasty; Charges; Complications; Extended care facility; Home health care; Homologous; Length of stay; Same day bilateral; Transfusion

Indexed keywords

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL CHARGES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0031432101     PISSN: 00678856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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