How much pent-up demand exists for Joint Arthroplasty?

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HOW MUCH PENT-UP DEMAND EXISTS FOR JOINT ARTHROPLASTY? (Orthopedics This Week)
Are patients waiting until Medicare kicks in to ask for total joint arthroplasty (TJA)? And, if so, how large is that pent-up demand?
Those are the questions that a group of Mayo Clinic researchers tackled with new research that has just been published in the February 2019 edition of the Journal of Arthroplasty. The title of the new study is “Evidence of Pent-Up Demand for Total Hip and Total Knee Arthroplasty at Age 65.”
Co-author Adam J. Schwartz, M.D., M.B.A., an assistant professor of Orthopaedic Su...

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