Ballantyne, Peri J.; Hawker, Gillian A.; Radoeva, Detelina - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2001
In-depth personal interviews were conducted with 29 men and women with severe arthritis of the hip or knee. All respondents had been identified by medical experts as having demonstrable need for total joint arthroplasty, but in assessment in another study, had stated an unwillingness to consider...