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Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

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01-09-2017 | Editorial

Fast track and outpatient surgery in total knee arthroplasty: beneficial for patients, doctors and hospitals

Authors: Michael T. Hirschmann, Nanne Kort, Sebastian Kopf, Roland Becker

Published in: Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy | Issue 9/2017

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These days many knee surgeons talk about fast track (FT) or outpatient pathways in total knee arthroplasty (TKA). It might be due to the increasingly difficult economic health care climate coming along with increasing financial pressure and decreasing reimbursement that FT knee arthroplasty is one of the hot topics. …

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Title: Fast track and outpatient surgery in total knee arthroplasty: beneficial for patients, doctors and hospitals
Authors: Michael T. Hirschmann
Nanne Kort
Sebastian Kopf
Roland Becker
Publication date: 01-09-2017
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy / Issue 9/2017
Print ISSN: 0942-2056
Electronic ISSN: 1433-7347
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00167-017-4660-1

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