Evaluation of explicit criteria for total hip joint replacement

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1200-1208

  Quintana, José M ^a   Aróstegui, Inmaculada ^b   Azkarate, Jesús ^c   Ignacio Goenaga, J ^d   Elexpe, Xabier ^e   Letona, Jon ^f   Arcelay, Andoni ^f  

^a HOSPITAL DE GALDAKAO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c Hospital de Bajo Deba   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL TXAGORRITXU   (Spain)

^e Departamento de Sanidad   (Spain)

^f Subdirección de Asistencia Sanitaria   (Spain)

Author keywords

Appropriateness; Hip prosthesis; Utilization review

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EVALUATION; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ALGORITHMS; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; DECISION TREES; DELPHI TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OSTEOARTHRITIS, HIP; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPAIN; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 0034534989     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(00)00244-4     Document Type: Article

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