Thromboprophylaxis and death after total hip replacement.
The recommendation that patients having a total hip replacement should receive pharmacological thromboprophylaxis is based on the belief that fatal pulmonary embolism is common, and that prophylaxis will decrease the death rate. To investigate these assumptions we performed a meta-analysis of all st...
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Format: | Journal article |
Langue: | English |
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1996
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