Many clients, for a variety of reasons, are eager to move quickly through this phase, but they often regret it downstream when costly revisions are required or a less-than-ideal end product is unveiled.
As long as it remains so supply-focused, policy will be like one hand clapping, leading to potential overinvestment in transmission and costly future revisions of institutions.
A method of adjusting fracture alignment after plate placement, without screw removal, presents an improvement over costly and risky revision surgery.
Thus, many patients outlive their implant and are required to undergo costly and disruptive revision surgery.
This work has produced a novel acetabular cup prostheses with a ceramic on ceramic bearing surface that should last longer and perform better, thus reducing the necessity for costly and debilitating revisions.
Mr. Schwarzenegger said he was convening a session of the Legislature to address the budget crisis and propose revisions to the costly workers compensation system.
Analysis of 5-year follow-up data reported in the RIPO register revealed that, with a 1.4% annual probability of revision, cementless prostheses becomes less costly.
Revision of a periprosthetic fracture is costly and not without complication.
Surgeons are often trying to decreased reinfection rates following two-stage reimplantation arthroplasty, which range from 3.2%to13%3% because multiple staged revision procedures for infection can be costly and have high morbidity.
In our theoretical 70-year-old patients, a low-price prosthesis is generally less costly than a high-price one, even with a very low revision rate.
As THA revision surgery may be surgically more complex, financially more costly and less effective than a primary THA, a key question when interpreting this study is the prognosis for patients after their RSA is revised.
