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A comparison of comorbidity measures for predicting mortality after elective hip and knee replacement: A cohort study of data from the National Joint Registry in England and Wales

BACKGROUND: The risk of mortality following elective total hip (THR) and knee replacements (KR) may be influenced by patients’ pre-existing comorbidities. There are a variety of scores derived from individual comorbidities that can be used in an attempt to quantify this. The aims of this study were...

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Autores principales: Penfold, Chris M., Whitehouse, Michael R., Blom, Ashley W., Judge, Andrew, Wilkinson, J. Mark, Sayers, Adrian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8360555/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34383814
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255602