Response to two recent BMJ papers on mortality after hip replacement: Comparative modelling study

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 348, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Kandala, Ngianga Bakwin ^a   Connock, Martin ^a   Pulikottil Jacob, Ruth ^a   Mistry, Hema ^a   Sutcliffe, Paul ^a   Costa, Matthew ^b   Clarke, Aileen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEMENTED HIP REPLACEMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HIP PROSTHESIS; HIP RESURFACING; HIP SURGERY; HUMAN; LETTER; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL TIME; UNCEMENTED HIP REPLACEMENT;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; FEMALE; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; MALE; METAL-ON-METAL JOINT PROSTHESES; OSTEOARTHRITIS, HIP;

EID: 84896735391     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.g1506     Document Type: Letter

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