Which Patients with Knee Problems Are Likely to Benefit from Nonarthroplasty Surgery? Development of a Clinical Prediction Rule

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 164, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 509-513

  Solomon, Daniel H ^a,b   Avorn, Jerry ^a   Warsi, Asra ^a   Brown, Charles H ^a   Martin, Scott ^a   Martin, Tamara L ^a   Wright, John ^a   Burgener, Michele ^a   Katz, Jeffrey N ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Division of Pharmacoepidemiology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; KNEE DISEASE; KNEE FUNCTION; KNEE PAIN; KNEE SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPORT INJURY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; JOINT DISEASES; KNEE INJURIES; KNEE JOINT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENISCI, TIBIAL; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 1542347639     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.164.5.509     Document Type: Article

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