Hyaluronic Acid Injections Are Associated with Delay of Total Knee Replacement Surgery in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis: Evidence from a Large U.S. Health Claims Database

BACKGROUND: The growing prevalence of osteoarthritis (OA) and the medical costs associated with total knee replacement (TKR) surgery for end-stage OA motivate a search for agents that can delay OA progression. We test a hypothesis that hyaluronic acid (HA) injection is associated with delay of TKR i...

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Autores principales: Altman, Roy, Lim, Sooyeol, Steen, R. Grant, Dasa, Vinod
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4687851/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26694145
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0145776

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4687851/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26694145
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0145776

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