Introducing new joint replacements to clinical practice

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 344, Issue 7839, 2012, Pages

  Skinner, John A ^a   Kay, Peter R ^b   Hart, Alister J ^c  

^a ROYAL NATIONAL ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b WRIGHTINGTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL; POLYETHYLENE;

CERAMICS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COOPERATION; COXITIS; DEVICE APPROVAL; DISEASE REGISTRY; EDITORIAL; EUROPEAN UNION; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTMARKETING SURVEILLANCE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PROSTHESIS FIXATION; PROSTHESIS LOOSENING; REOPERATION; RISK REDUCTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HIP PROSTHESIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS; REGISTER; STANDARD;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; REGISTRIES;

EID: 84858999531     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.d8188     Document Type: Editorial

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