The impact of new hospital orthopaedic surgery programs on total joint arthroplasty utilization

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1353-1361

  Lu, Xin ^a   Hagen, Tyson P ^b   Vaughan Sarrazin, Mary S ^b   Cram, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPLASTY; ARTICLE; HEALTH PROGRAM; JOINT; MEDICARE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; EDUCATION; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; ORTHOPEDICS; PROPENSITY SCORE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; HOSPITALS, SPECIAL; HUMANS; MEDICARE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ORTHOPEDICS; PROPENSITY SCORE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77954629496     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: 15351386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.I.00833     Document Type: Article

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