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SUBMITTER: Bulow E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5560207 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bülow Erik E Rolfson Ola O Cnudde Peter P Rogmark Cecilia C Garellick Göran G Nemes Szilárd S
Acta orthopaedica 20170628 5
Background and purpose - In-hospital death following total hip arthroplasty (THA) is related to comorbidity. The long-term effect of comorbidity on all-cause mortality is, however, unknown for this group of patients and it was investigated in this study. Patients and methods - We used data from the Swedish Hip Arthroplasty Register, linked to the National Patient Register from the National Board of Health and Welfare, for patients operated on with THA in 1999-2012. We identified 120,836 THAs tha ...[more]