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Partial knee replacements for osteoarthritis performed by trainee surgeons last as long as those performed by more experienced consultants

According to data from England and Wales suggesting no difference in rates of subsequent revision surgery

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Partial knee replacements for osteoarthritis performed by trainee surgeons last as long as those performed by more experienced consultants

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Researchers investigate the association between surgeons training grade and the partial knee replacement surgeries they perform.

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Credit: Jonathan Borba, Pexels (CC0, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

Partial knee replacements for osteoarthritis performed by trainee surgeons last as long as those performed by more experienced consultants, according to data from England and Wales suggesting no difference in rates of subsequent revision surgery

 

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In your coverage, please use this URL to provide access to the freely available paper in PLOS Medicine: http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1004445

Article Title: Association between surgeon training grade and the risk of revision following unicompartmental knee replacement: An analysis of National Joint Registry data

Author Countries: United Kingdom

Funding: see manuscript

Journal

PLoS Medicine

DOI

10.1371/journal.pmed.1004445

Method of Research

Observational study

Subject of Research

People

COI Statement

Competing Interests: see manuscript

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