Surgery or Consultation: A Population-Based Cohort Study of Use of Orthopaedic Surgeon Services

• Elizabeth M Badley ,

  * E-mail: e.badley@utoronto.ca

  Affiliations The Arthritis Community Research and Evaluation Unit, Division of Health Care and Outcomes Research, Toronto Western Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Physical Therapy, Rehabilitation Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Mayilee Canizares,

  Affiliation The Arthritis Community Research and Evaluation Unit, Division of Health Care and Outcomes Research, Toronto Western Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Crystal MacKay,

  Affiliations The Arthritis Community Research and Evaluation Unit, Division of Health Care and Outcomes Research, Toronto Western Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Physical Therapy, Rehabilitation Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Nizar N. Mahomed,

  Affiliations The Arthritis Community Research and Evaluation Unit, Division of Health Care and Outcomes Research, Toronto Western Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Aileen M. Davis

  Affiliations The Arthritis Community Research and Evaluation Unit, Division of Health Care and Outcomes Research, Toronto Western Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Physical Therapy, Rehabilitation Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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