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Managing uncertainty - a qualitative study of surgeons’ decision-making for one-stage and two-stage revision surgery for prosthetic hip joint infection

BACKGROUND: Approximately 88,000 primary hip replacements are performed in England and Wales each year. Around 1% go on to develop deep prosthetic joint infection. Between one-stage and two-stage revision arthroplasty best treatment options remain unclear. Our aims were to characterise consultant or...

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Autores principales: Moore, Andrew J., Blom, Ashley W., Whitehouse, Michael R., Gooberman-Hill, Rachael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5388991/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28403859
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-017-1499-z