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The Palliative Care Champions Program framework can be easily adapted to fit the needs of other organizations.Older African Americans (AAs) with serious illness experience disparities in advance care planning, access to palliative care and hospice, and decision-making at end of life. While culturally specific drivers of care outcomes have been…[Read more]

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted on the provision of elective and trauma orthopaedic surgery worldwide with millions of operations cancelled. The risk of patients developing COVID-19 after undergoing ambulatory procedures in hospitals is unknown. This paper aims to investigate the risk of developing COVID-19 from day-case and overnight stay…[Read more]

The ideal bearing combination for total hip arthroplasty (THA) remains debatable. Highly cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE) is widely used, but long-term wear rates are not fully known, nor is how much the initial “creep,” if any, affects overall wear. Additionally, the use of oxidized zirconium (OxZir) is purported to lower polyethylene wear rates,…[Read more]