Total knee arthroplasty: Good agreement of clinical severity scores between patients and consultants

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ebinesan, Ananthan D ^a   Sarai, Bhupinder S ^a   Walley, Gayle ^a,b   Bridgman, Stephen ^a,b,c   Maffulli, Nicola ^a,b  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MALE; PAIN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGEON; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HUMANS; MALE; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; PATIENT SELECTION; PATIENTS; PHYSICIANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33747818602     PISSN: 14712474     EISSN: 14712474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-7-61     Document Type: Article

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