Differences between Patientsʼ and Physiciansʼ Evaluations of Outcome after Total Hip Arthroplasty*
- 1 June 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
- Vol. 78 (6), 835-8
- https://doi.org/10.2106/00004623-199606000-00005
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to compare patients' and physicians' evaluations of the results of 147 total hip arthroplasties. The patients and physicians independently evaluated pain and over-all satisfaction with the outcome of the procedure using a 10.0-centimeter visual-analog scale. TheThis publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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