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Page last updated: 29/06/2022 Home > Clinical Thresholds Policy > I - N > Knee Arthroplasty (Primary)

Hip and Knee Arthroplasty

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  1. This policy does not apply to referrals made for reasons of diagnostic uncertainty
  2. Standing X-rays should be used

 

 

Ratification date 19 June 2018
Next Review date May 2020

 

 

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