Joint replacement surgery in elderly patients with severe osteoarthritis of the hip or knee: Decision making, postoperative recovery, and clinical outcomes

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 168, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 1430-1440

  Hamel, Mary Beth ^a   Toth, Maria ^a   Legedza, Anna ^a   Rosen, Max P ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HIP OSTEOARTHRITIS; HUMAN; JOINT PROSTHESIS; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING; WESTERN ONTARIO AND MCMASTER UNIVERSITIES OSTEOARTHRITIS INDEX;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; COHORT STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OSTEOARTHRITIS, HIP; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 47549113862     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.168.13.1430     Document Type: Article

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