How variable are hip replacement implant costs across the National Health Service?

Gulraj Matharu; Andrew Judge; David W Murray; Hemant G Pandit

How variable are hip replacement implant costs across the National Health Service?

Gulraj Matharu, Andrew Judge, David W Murray, Hemant G Pandit

Bristol Medical School (THS)

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Abstract

Gulraj Matharu and colleagues highlight the substantial variability in the prices paid by different NHS institutions for the same total hip replacement from the same manufacture, and call for surgeons, institutional purchasing departments, and manufacturers to work together to help reduce the variability in implant costs.

Original language	English
Journal	The Journal of Trauma and Orthopeadics
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 30 Jul 2019

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