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Decline in Health-Related Quality of Life reported by more than half of those waiting for joint replacement surgery: a prospective cohort study

BACKGROUND: In many healthcare systems, people with severe joint disease wait months to years for joint replacement surgery. There are little empirical data on the health consequences of this delay and it is unclear whether people with substantial morbidity at entry to the waiting list continue to d...

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Autores principales: Ackerman, Ilana N, Bennell, Kim L, Osborne, Richard H
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3121657/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21605398
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-12-108