Equity in access to total joint replacement of the hip and knee in England: Cross sectional study

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 341, Issue 7770, 2010, Pages

  Judge, Andy ^a,b   Welton, Nicky J ^a   Sandhu, Jat ^a,c   Ben Shlomo, Yoav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN AREA; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HOSPITALIZATION; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 77956260261     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c4092     Document Type: Article

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