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Postoperative opioid use as an early indication of total hip arthroplasty failure

Background and purpose — A criticism of total hip arthroplasty (THA) survivorship analysis is that revisions are a late and rare outcome. We investigated whether prolonged opioid use is a possible indicator of early THA failure. Patients and methods — We conducted a cohort study of THAs registered i...

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Autores principales: Namba, Robert S, Inacio, Maria C S, Pratt, Nicole L, Graves, Stephen E, Roughead, Elizabeth E, Craig Cheetham, T, Paxton, Elizabeth W
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4937769/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27168377
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17453674.2016.1181820