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Cost-of-illness of knee osteoarthritis: potential cost savings by not undergoing arthroplasty within the first 2 years

PURPOSE: Although knee arthroplasty (KA) is the largest source of hospitalization costs for knee osteoarthritis (OA), some studies have suggested reducing the use of “low-value” interventions, such as intra-articular hyaluronic acid (HA), to lower health care costs. However, those studies fail to co...

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Autores principales: Ong, Kevin L, Runa, Maria, Lau, Edmund, Altman, Roy D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6421880/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30936730
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CEOR.S170119