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Health Care Needs and Support for Patients Undergoing Treatment for Prosthetic Joint Infection following Hip or Knee Arthroplasty: A Systematic Review

BACKGROUND: Hip and knee arthroplasty are common interventions for the treatment of joint conditions, most notably osteoarthritis. Although many patients benefit from surgery, approximately 1% of patients develop infection afterwards known as deep prosthetic joint infection (PJI), which often requir...

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Autores principales: Kunutsor, Setor K., Beswick, Andrew D., Peters, Tim J., Gooberman-Hill, Rachael, Whitehouse, Michael R., Blom, Ashley W., Moore, Andrew J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5207523/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28046049
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0169068