A Predictive Model for Knee Joint Replacement in Older Women

Knee replacement (KR) is expensive and invasive. To date no predictive algorithms have been developed to identify individuals at high risk of surgery. This study assessed whether patient self-reported risk factors predict 10-year KR in a population-based study of 1,462 women aged over 70 years recru...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lewis, Joshua, Dhaliwal, Satvinder, Zhu, Kun, Prince, Richard
Format: Journal Article
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/48115