Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty and total knee arthroplasty among medicare beneficiaries, 2000 to 2009

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 95, Issue 22, 2013, Pages

  Bolognesi, Michael P ^a   Greiner, Melissa A ^a   Attarian, David E ^a   Watters, Tyler Steven ^a   Wellman, Samuel S ^a   Curtis, Lesley H ^a   Berend, Keith R ^a,b   Setoguchi, Soko ^a  

^a DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Duke Clinical Research Institute ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; KNEE IMPLANT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASCULINITY; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; REOPERATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; UNICOMPARTMENTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; VERY ELDERLY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; JOINT DISEASES; KNEE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

AGED; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOINT DISEASES; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MEDICARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84894658988     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: 15351386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.L.00652     Document Type: Article

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