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Appropriate Might Not Be the Most Appropriate: Commentary on an article by HMK …

Background: Patients with knee osteoarthritis may undergo total knee replacement too early
or may delay or underuse this procedure. We quantified these categories of total knee …

We appreciate your thoughts and comments on our study [1, 2]. We agree that our findings
are by no means definitive and much work still needs to be completed in this arena. The …

Background Knee replacements are the mainstay of treatment for end-stage osteoarthritis
and are effective. Given time, all knee replacements will fail and knowing when this failure …

The strain on clinic and surgeon resources resulting from a rise in demand for total knee
replacement (TKR) requires reconsideration of when and how often patients need to be …

As the number of total knee arthroplasties (TKAs) increases, it is reasonable to expect the
number of revision TKAs (rTKAs) to rise in parallel. The patient-related and societal burdens …

It is not known whether it is better to perform total knee replacements early or late in the
course of arthritis. To examine the determinants of patient-related outcomes after knee …

All ICMJE Conflict of Interest Forms for authors and Clinical Orthopaedics and Related
Research® editors and board members are on file with the publication and can be viewed …

1. First of all, for some elderly patients, their poor physical condition makes it difficult for them
to bear the injury caused by major orthopaedic surgery such as TKA. Therefore, for clinical …

[1] Gwynne-Jones D, Gwynne-Jones J, Wilson R. The functional outcomes of patients with
knee osteoarthritis managed non-operatively at the joint clinic at 5 year follow up: does …