Cost effectiveness of total knee arthroplasty from a health care providers' perspective before and after introduction of an interdisciplinary clinical pathway - is investment always improvement?

BACKGROUND: Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is an effective, but also cost-intensive health care intervention for end stage osteoarthritis. This investigation was designed to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of TKA before versus after introduction of an interdisciplinary clinical pathway from a Univers...

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Autores principales: Krummenauer, Frank, Guenther, Klaus-Peter, Kirschner, Stephan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3295718/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22168149
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-11-338

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