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From: Cost effectiveness of total knee arthroplasty from a health care providers' perspective before and after introduction of an interdisciplinary clinical pathway - is investment always improvement?

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Illustration of the sequential cohort design first consecutively recruiting patients, who underwent total knee arthroplasty (TKA) before implementation of a critical pathway on TKA, and then recruiting 128 patients, who underwent TKA after pathway implementation (the latter being stratified for attendance of a personal briefing as a voluntary part of the pathway post-hoc during exploratory analysis of the cohorts' clinical data).

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