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Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Effect of weekend physiotherapy on length of stay - Australian Health Review

An Australian regional hospital study has shown that increasing the provision of physiotherapy services after TKR has the potential to reduce hospital length of stay.  Effect of weekend physiotherapy provision on physiotherapy and hospital length of stay after total knee and total hip replacement aimed to investigate the effects of a change from a 5 to a 7 day a week physiotherapy service on patients who received either a TKR or a THR. 

Australian Health Review 38(3) 265-270  Published: 8 May 2014  Zoe L. Maidment A B , Brenton G. Hordacre B and Christopher J. Barr B C  

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