The incidence of upper and lower extremity surgery for rheumatoid arthritis among medicare beneficiaries

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - American Volume

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 403-410

  Waljee, Jennifer ^a   Zhong, Lin ^a   Baser, Onur ^b   Yuce, Huseyin ^c   Fox, David A ^b   Chung, Kevin C ^a  

^a Section of Plastic Surgery   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANKLE ARTHROPLASTY; ARTHRODESIS; ARTICLE; ELBOW ARTHROPLASTY; FEMALE; HAND SURGERY; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HUMAN; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; KNEE SURGERY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SHOULDER ARTHROPLASTY; SYNOVECTOMY; TENDON RECONSTRUCTION; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; COHORT ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; INCIDENCE; LOWER LIMB; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY; REOPERATION; REPLACEMENT ARTHROPLASTY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; UPPER LIMB; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MEDICARE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 84924325710     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: 15351386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.N.00802     Document Type: Article

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