Perioperative quality-of-care measures for patients undergoing total hip or total knee replacement

Journal of Long-Term Effects of Medical Implants

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 249-253

  SooHoo, Nelson F ^a   Lieberman, Jay R ^b   Farng, Eugene ^a   Park, Samuel ^a   Jain, Sushma ^a   Ko, Clifford Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Quality improvement; Quality measures; Quality of care; Total hip replacement; Total knee replacement

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPLASTY; HIP PROSTHESES; JOINTS (ANATOMY); KNEE PROSTHESES;

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY MEASURES; QUALITY OF CARE; TOTAL HIP REPLACEMENT (THR); TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT;

JOINT PROSTHESES;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PEROPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78650111489     PISSN: 10506934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/JLongTermEffMedImplants.v19.i4.10     Document Type: Article

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