The records of 4721 patients, who were registered at a Primary Health Care Centre in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia during a 18 month period, were reviewed. One hundred and sixty-six (3.5%) had osteoarthritis of the hip or knee. The ratio of hip to knee was 1:80 which is very low compared to o
A preliminary evaluation of the dimensionality and clinical importance of pain and disability in osteoarthritis of the hip and knee
β Scribed by N. Bellamy; W. W. Buchanan
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 752 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0770-3198
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