Open AccessDo Patients Live Longer After THA and Is the Relative Survival Diagnosis-specific?
Author(s) -
Peter Cnudde,
Ola Rolfson,
A. John Timperley,
Anne Garland,
Johan Kärrholm,
Göran Garellick,
Szilárd Nemes
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
clinical orthopaedics and related research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1528-1132
pISSN - 0009-921X
DOI - 10.1007/s11999.0000000000000097
Subject(s) - medicine , relative survival , confidence interval , life expectancy , socioeconomic status , population , arthroplasty , proportional hazards model , survival analysis , survival rate , relative risk , surgery , quality of life (healthcare) , epidemiology , demography , cancer registry , environmental health , nursing , sociology
Hip replacements are successful in restoring mobility, reducing pain, and improving quality of life. However, the association between THA and the potential for increased life expectancy (as expressed by mortality rate) is less clear, and any such association could well be influenced by diagnosis and patient-related, socioeconomic, and surgical factors, which have not been well studied.