AQUILA: Assessment of quality in lower limb arthroplasty. An expert Delphi consensus for total knee and total hip arthroplasty

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Pijls, Bart ^a,b,c   Dekkers, Olaf ^a   Middeldorp, Saskia ^a   Valstar, Edward ^a,b,c,d   Van Der Heide, Huub ^a,b,c   Van Der Linden Van Der Zwaag, Henrica ^a,b,c   Nelissen, Rob ^a,b,c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Albinusdreef 2   (Netherlands)

^c Medical Center ^*  (Netherlands)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Generalizability; Methodological Quality; Reporting Quality; Total Hip Arthroplasty; Total Knee Arthroplasty

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF QUALITY IN LOWER LIMB ARTHROPLASTY; CHECKLIST; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSENSUS; DELPHI STUDY; HUMAN; INTERNET; PROSTHESIS LOOSENING; QUALITY CONTROL; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HIP; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; KNEE; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; METHODOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; DELPHI TECHNIQUE; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; INTERNET; KNEE JOINT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 79960563627     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-12-173     Document Type: Article

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