Influence of age on knee replacement selection and outcomes

Thesis

Knee replacement is a very successful procedure and implantation rates continue to increase. Due to the success of the intervention the indications have been stretched to include patients historically considered too young and too old. Accusations of designer centre bias are used by some to explain discrepancies between national register outcome data and cohort data. This thesis examines the influence of age on selection and outcome for different types of knee replacement and attempts to un...

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Authors: Kennedy, J

• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: partial knee replacement; osteoarthritis; knee replacement; age; knee arthroplasty; unicompartmental knee replacement; selection
• Subjects: Osteoarthritis; Knee replacement