Science news articles about 'replacement patients'

... Centre (RI-MUHC) and McGill University, most patients in Quebec do not receive the recommended treatment ... 7,058 Quebec hip and knee replacement patients, and discovered that only 19 percent of them ...

... colleagues reviewed data from a national healthcare database looking at more than one million patients who had total joint replacement surgery from 1988 to 2005. They compared surgical outcomes in ...

... while the lack of available home care and postoperative support, crucial for hip and knee replacement patients, prevented other physicians from referring patients. Beyond these limitations, surgeons ...

... complication rate -- more than 50 percent -- in hip replacement patients regarded as superobese," explains Mayo ... prolonged wound drainage. Five of the 43 patients required a total of 15 re-operations ...