Should Total Hip Arthroplasty Be Used for Hip Fracture?

Affiliations

¹ From the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Haukeland University Hospital, and the Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen - both in Bergen, Norway.

Editorial

Jan-Erik Gjertsen. N Engl J Med. 2019.

. 2019 Dec 5;381(23):2261-2262.

doi: 10.1056/NEJMe1913800.

¹ From the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Haukeland University Hospital, and the Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen - both in Bergen, Norway.

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Comment on

Total Hip Arthroplasty or Hemiarthroplasty for Hip Fracture.
HEALTH Investigators; Bhandari M, Einhorn TA, Guyatt G, Schemitsch EH, Zura RD, Sprague S, Frihagen F, Guerra-Farfán E, Kleinlugtenbelt YV, Poolman RW, Rangan A, Bzovsky S, Heels-Ansdell D, Thabane L, Walter SD, Devereaux PJ. HEALTH Investigators, et al. N Engl J Med. 2019 Dec 5;381(23):2199-2208. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1906190. Epub 2019 Sep 26. N Engl J Med. 2019. PMID: 31557429 Clinical Trial.