Population needs assessment and knee replacement surgery
Open Access
- 28 February 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Rheumatology
- Vol. 42 (4) , 503-506
- https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keg197
Abstract
Determining a population's need for any healthcare intervention is an enormously difficult challenge. Yet, without attempts to quantify healthcare need, health service planning operates in a vacuum. This vacuum has often been filled by reference to past provision, professional judgement, political expedience or, to a limited extent, population preferences.Keywords
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