What Is the Learning Curve for the Anterior Approach for Total Hip Arthroplasty?

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 473, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 3860-3866

  de Steiger, Richard Noel ^a   Lorimer, Michelle ^b   Solomon, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR SURGICAL APPROACH; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPROSTHESIS FRACTURE; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HUMAN; LEARNING CURVE; LEG LENGTH INEQUALITY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PROSTHESIS DISLOCATION; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; PROSTHESIS LOOSENING; REOPERATION; SURGEON; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DEVICES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HIP; HIP PROSTHESIS; HIP REPLACEMENT; OSTEOARTHRITIS, HIP; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; REGISTER; TIME FACTOR;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HIP JOINT; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; LEARNING CURVE; OSTEOARTHRITIS, HIP; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOGRAPHY; REGISTRIES; REOPERATION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84946485982     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-015-4565-6     Document Type: Article

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