Medical decision making in patients with knee pain, meniscal tear, and osteoarthritis

Arthritis Care and Research

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1531-1538

  Suter, Lisa G ^a,b   Fraenkel, Liana ^a,b   Losina, Elena ^c   Katz, Jeffrey N ^d   Gomoll, Andreas H ^d   Paltiel, A David ^e  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW DISEASE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; KNEE MENISCUS RUPTURE; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; KNEE PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENISCECTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POPULATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BAYES THEOREM; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; KNEE INJURIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENISCI, TIBIAL; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; PAIN; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70449513020     PISSN: 21514658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.24893     Document Type: Article

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