Variations in Surgeons' Recovery Expectations for Patients Undergoing Total Joint Arthroplasty: A survey of the AAHKS Membership

Journal of Arthroplasty

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 401-405

  Dy, Christopher J ^a   Gonzalez Della Valle, Alejandro ^a   York, Sally ^b   Rodriguez, Jose A ^a   Sculco, Thomas P ^a   Ghomrawi, Hassan M K ^c  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Patient expectations; Recovery expectations; Total hip arthroplasty; Total knee arthroplasty

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONVALESCENCE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPECTATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECOVERY EXPECTATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; ORTHOPEDICS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 84874571266     PISSN: 08835403     EISSN: 15328406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arth.2012.06.035     Document Type: Article

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