Clinical outcomes of modified direct lateral approach of Hardinge for total hip arthroplasty
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Abstract
The aim of the study was to evaluate a modified direct lateral approach for total hip arthroplasty in terms of clinical and functional outcomes, rate of complications and hospitalization. We retrospectively reviewed the data of 526 patients with THA operated in our department between January 2017 and December 2021. Clinical examination, functional outcome and radiographic evaluation were performed during follow-up. Patients were evaluated at the following time points: preoperatively and postoperatively at 3 days, 6 weeks, 12 weeks and 1 year and we registered surgery related data, complications, Visual Analogue Scale pain score, Harris Hip Score, the Western Ontario McMaster Osteoarthritis Index. Low intraoperative blood loss, short operation time, short hospitalization, early mobilization of the patient and good range of motion imposed the modified direct lateral approach as a valuable procedure for the patients with THA. VAS score evaluated at 3 days and 6 weeks indicated a very good overall postoperative experience. The HHS and Womac scores were evaluated at 6 weeks, 12 weeks and 1 year and showed excellent results. Trendelenburg gait and abductor weakness, traditionally related with direct lateral approach, were not significant statistically and complete reversible. We registered a very low complication rates with good functional outcome. The modified direct lateral approach can lead to superior outcomes, improved quality of life, with reduced intra and postoperative complications rate.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".