A Multimodal Clinical Pathway Can Reduce Length of Stay After Total Knee Arthroplasty

HSS Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 9-15

  Ayalon, Omri ^a   Liu, Spencer ^b,c   Flics, Susan ^b   Cahill, Janet ^b   Juliano, Karen ^b   Cornell, Charles N ^b,c  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

clinical pathways; pre emptive pain management; total knee replacement

Indexed keywords

EID: 79151476276     PISSN: 15563316     EISSN: 15563324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11420-010-9164-1     Document Type: Article

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