Journal article
Primary total knee arthroplasty in patients receiving workers' compensation benefits.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To determine the influence of Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) benefits on short-term clinical outcomes of primary unilateral total knee arthroplasty (TKA).
METHODS: In a retrospective matched-cohort study at a single tertiary-care arthroplasty centre in Ontario, we compared a study cohort of 38 successive primary TKA patients receiving WSIB benefits from 1998 to 2002 to 38 controls, a matched cohort of non-WSIB …
Authors
de Beer J; Petruccelli D; Gandhi R; Winemaker M
Journal
Canadian Journal of Surgery, Vol. 48, No. 2, pp. 100–105
Publication Date
April 2005
ISSN
0008-428X