Web-based follow-up after total joint arthroplasty proves to be cost-effective, but is it safe?

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - American Volume

Volumn 96, Issue 22, 2014, Pages

  Van Eck, Carola F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ARTHROCENTESIS; ARTHROPLASTY; BLOOD CULTURE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; JOINT PROSTHESIS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; NOTE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SAFETY; PERIPROSTHETIC JOINT INFECTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REOPERATION; TOTAL JOINT ARTHROPLASTY; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84911408449     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: 15351386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.N.00829     Document Type: Note

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