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Apparent improvement in the outcome of hip or knee-joint replacement operations over the period of a prospective study
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 October 2009
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The apparent reduction in the incidence of subsequent joint sepsis and of re-operation without evidence of infection during the course of a prospective study was an artifact of the analysis method.
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