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There is a significant underuse of hip and knee arthroplasty for severe arthritis in both sexes, but the degree of underuse is more than three times greater in women than in men, despite equal willingness to undergo the surgery. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

April 6, 2000New England Journal of MedicineOpen Access

Differences between Men and Women in the Rate of Use of Hip and Knee Arthroplasty

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GHGillian HawkerUniversity of New Brunswick JWJames G. WrightUniversity of Toronto PCPeter C. CoyteUniversity of Toronto

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April 6, 2000New England Journal of MedicineOpen Access

Differences between Men and Women in the Rate of Use of Hip and Knee Arthroplasty

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GHGillian HawkerUniversity of New Brunswick JWJames G. WrightUniversity of Toronto PCPeter C. CoyteUniversity of Toronto

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Key points are not available for this paper at this time.

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Hawker et al. (2000) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0905ac29af591ab701722e https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm200004063421405

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