Sentence examples for major joint replacement from inspiring English sources

The advantage of stem cell treatment is that it's much less invasive than major joint replacement surgery.

Milstein predicts off-shore competition for nonurgent surgeries, such as major joint replacement and heart procedures, is going to start affecting U.S. prices.

Major joint replacement surgery at the hospital comes in at $155,769, which is almost three times the local average and more than nine times the price at Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center in the Bronx.

Exclusion criteria included: history of major joint replacement, terminal illness, inflammatory arthritis, or dementia.

There is little information in the literature about the results of major joint replacement surgery in patients with ITP.

Several quality-of-life studies in patients awaiting major joint replacement have focused on the outcomes of surgery.

There were 125 major joint replacements (5.2%) in this cohort, the majority (95.2%) being of the hip or knee (39.2% and 56.0% respectively).

The 3818 study hospitals carried out 1 273 081 major joint replacements from 2001-5.

In Finland, major joint replacements are surgical procedures with high volume and relatively long waiting times.

We compared hospital characteristics of physician owned and non physician owned specialty hospitals including procedural volumes of major joint replacements (THR and TKR), hospital teaching status, and for profit status.

A significantly larger proportion of physician owned specialty hospitals performed fewer than 50 major joint replacements on Medicare beneficiaries in 2003 (65% [n = 19]) compared to non physician owned hospitals (25% [n = 2]), P =.04).