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SUBMITTER: Singh JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4258518 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Singh Jasvinder A JA Ramachandran Rekha R
Clinical rheumatology 20140607 1
The objective of this study was to assess the time trends in utilization, clinical characteristics, and outcomes of patients undergoing total ankle arthroplasty (TAA) in the USA. We used the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) data from 1998 to 2010 to examine time trends in the utilization rates of TAA. We used the Cochran Armitage test for trend to assess time trends across the years and the analysis of variance (ANOVA), Wilcoxon test, or chi-squared test (as appropriate) to compare the first (1 ...[more]