Mapping How the World Really Does Hip Replacement
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How does hip replacement practice really differ from one country to the next? Researcher Irrum Afzal joins the AHF Podcast to discuss the Global Arthroplasty Practice Survey (GAPS) — the first effort to map how surgeons worldwide actually perform total hip replacement.
Despite roughly seventy years of modern hip replacement, there's still no global consensus on the fundamentals — surgical approach, fixation, bearing surface, or the perioperative pathway. National joint registries capture some of this, but their coverage and data quality vary widely, and many countries have no…
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