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GLOBAL IMPROVEMENT OF TOTAL KNEE RESULTS
On this page you will find the results of total knee replacements as published by surgeons from the whole world in five leading orthopaedic journals (1). The results will be presented in graphic form as bar graphs starting with the year 2007. The bars will represent the percentages of total hips / knees that survived a well defined period of years since surgery. There would be three survival groups a) early survival = less than 10 year survival b) 10 year survival c) long term survival = more than 10 year survival
For purposes of comparison there will be a group of results that were published ten years earlier, i.e. in the year 1997.
Hopefully, in this way we would be able to present in the graphical form that the global results of total hips and total knee replacements are globally improving. For those of you who have in mind the recent GlW (Global Warming) havoc, you are right. We hope in every case that our statistics here would not be deviating more from rigid scientific standards than does the statistics of GW.
Any suggestions? ____________________ ( 1 ) The five journals are all English speaking: Acta Othopaedica Clinical Orthopedic and Related Research Journal of Arthroplasty Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery – American issue Journal of Bone and Joint surgery – British issue. Hopefully we will be able to add soon results published in German and French speaking journals: Revue de chirurgie orthopedique et reparatrice Zeitschrift fur die gesamte Orthopaedie und ihre Grenzgebiete
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