NEW ALGORITHM PREDICTS HIP JOINT REVISION (Orthopedics This Week)
Which patients are more likely to be readmitted to the hospital following hip replacement surgery? A study reported on by Irvin Jackson—a writer for About Lawsuits.com—and published in the journal AMA Surgery found that hip complications more frequently occur among older patients and those who are dealing with other health problems.
The study principals examined data on 268,518 patients from New York and California from 2006 through 2011. According to Jackson, they found that patients who were over the age of 74, African America...
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