Journal article
Optimal usage of unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: a study of 41,986 cases from the National Joint Registry for England and Wales.
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Unicompartmental Knee Replacement (UKR) has advantages over Total Knee Replacement (TKR) but National Joint Registries (NJRs) report a significantly higher revision rate for UKR. As a result, most surgeons are highly selective, offering UKR to only a small proportion (≤5%) of patients requiring knee replacement and consequently performing very few each year. However, surgeons with large UKR practices have the lowest revision rates. Overall practice size is often beyond the surgeon’s contro...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Accepted manuscript, pdf, 275.7KB)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1302/0301-620x.97b11.35551
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Bibliographic Details
- Journal:
- Bone and Joint Journal
- Volume:
- 97-B
- Issue:
- 11
- Pages:
- 1506-1511
- Publication date:
- 2015-11-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2015-07-03
- DOI:
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2049-4408
- ISSN:
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2049-4394
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:574788
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uuid:246b98cd-b9ce-48e6-951c-5c0b75203eea
- Local pid:
- pubs:574788
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574788
- Deposit date:
- 2016-02-25
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- Copyright holder:
- British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery
- Copyright date:
- 2015
- Notes:
- © 2015, The British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery: All rights reserved. This is the author accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available from the British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery at: https://doi.org/10.1302/0301-620X.97B11.35551
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