The increasing financial burden of knee revision surgery in the United States

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 446, Issue , 2006, Pages 221-226

  Lavernia, Carlos ^a   Lee, David J ^b   Hernandez, Victor Hugo ^a  

^a Mercy Hospital Miami   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; IMPLANT; INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS; KNEE SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMBURSEMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UNITED STATES; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE COST; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33744723752     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000214424.67453.9a     Document Type: Conference Paper

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