Erschienen in:
01.07.2014 | Editor's Spotlight/Take 5
Editor’s Spotlight/Take 5: Is Changing Hospitals for Revision Total Joint Arthroplasty Associated With More Complications?
verfasst von:
Seth S. Leopold, MD
Erschienen in:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Ausgabe 7/2014
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Excerpt
Patients commonly change hospitals when undergoing revision surgery. The reasons for the switch range from the mundane (food, distance to home) to the profoundly personal and potentially important (trust in the care team whose surgery may have failed, or failed to meet expectations). But while we appropriately consider implants, anesthetics, and preoperative testing as key elements of care, there is precious little information out there describing the influence of the setting of care on the efficacy of our interventions. …