Variations in the pre-operative status of patients coming to primary hip replacement for osteoarthritis in European orthopaedic centres.

BMC Musculoskelet Disord · 2009 · PMC2654855 · PMID 19208230

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There is an increasing trend for those who pay for surgical interventions, such as total hip replacement, to want to use simple scoring systems in order to 'triage' patients as suitable or unsuitable for surgery.

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