Patient-reported complications after elective joint replacement surgery: Are they correct?

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series B

Volumn 94 B, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1120-1125

  Alazzawi, S ^a,b   Bardakos, N V ^c   Hadfield, S G ^c   Butt, U ^a,d   Beer, Z H ^c   Field, R E ^c  

^a South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c EPSOM GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HIP DISLOCATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; JOINT PROSTHESIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; STROKE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HIP DISLOCATION; HUMANS; KNEE DISLOCATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; REOPERATION; SELF REPORT; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 84864677012     PISSN: 0301620X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1302/0301-620X.94B8.29040     Document Type: Article

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