Total or Partial Knee Arthroplasty Trial - TOPKAT: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Trials

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Beard, David ^a   Price, Andrew ^a   Cook, Jonathan ^c   Fitzpatrick, Ray ^b   Carr, Andrew ^a   Campbell, Marion ^c   Doll, Helen ^d   Campbell, Helen ^b   Arden, Nigel ^a   Cooper, Cushla ^a   Davies, Loretta ^a   Murray, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Equipoise; Expertise; Medial compartment osteoarthritis; Total knee replacement; Unicompartmental knee replacement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXFORD KNEE SCORE; PARTIAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT SELECTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84883662412     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-14-292     Document Type: Article

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