Determining the reliability of the Graf classification for hip dysplasia

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 447, Issue , 2006, Pages 119-124

  Roposch, Andreas ^a,b,c,e   Graf, Reinhard ^d   Wright, James G ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL SPEISING   (Austria)

^e GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HIP DYSPLASIA; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURGEON; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONGENITAL HIP DISLOCATION; EDUCATION; EVALUATION; HOSPITALIZATION; INCIDENCE; NEWBORN; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORTHOPEDICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX RATIO; STANDARD;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HIP DISLOCATION, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORTHOPEDICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33746063282     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000203475.73678.be     Document Type: Article

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