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Clinical benefit and cost effectiveness of total knee arthroplasty in the older patient

PURPOSE: Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is an effective, but also cost-intensive health care procedure for the elderly. Furthermore, bearing demographic changes in Western Europe in mind, TKA-associated financial investment for health care insurers will increase notably and thereby catalyze discussio...

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Autores principales: Krummenauer, F, Wolf, C, Günther, K-P, Kirschner, S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3351964/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19258217
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2047-783X-14-2-76