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Bone Jt Open
May 2021
Division of Orthopaedics, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada.
Aims: "Get It Right First Time" (GIRFT) and NHS England's Best Practice Tariff (BPT) have published directives advising that patients over the ages of 65 (GIRFT) and 69 years (BPT) receiving total hip arthroplasty (THA) should receive cemented implants and have brought in financial penalties if this policy is not observed. Despite this, worldwide, uncemented component use has increased, a situation described as a 'paradox'. GIRFT and BPT do, however, acknowledge more data are required to support this edict with current policies based on the National Joint Registry survivorship and implant costs.
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January 2012
Department of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Chicago, IL.
Chest
January 2012
Alfa Institute of Biomedical Sciences (AIBS) Athens, Greece; Department of Medicine, Henry Dunant Hospital, Athens, Greece; Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Athens, Greece. Electronic address:
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