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TOTAL HIP ARTHROPLASTY OUTCOMES. Edited by Gerald A. M. Finerman, Frederick J. Dorey, Peter Grigoris, and Harry A. McKellop. New York, Churchill Livingstone, 1998. $58.00, 296 pp.

In an era with increasing focus on patient-centered analysis, this book's emphasis on outcomes, with an excellent discussion by Dorey and McKellop regarding the strengths and weaknesses of survival curves, is especially welcome. A variety of individuals, including arthroplasty surgeons, rheumatologists, and especially general orthopaedists who perform a substantial number of hip-replacement procedures as part of their broader practice, will benefit from reading this book. The reason that the relevance of this text extends well beyond the limits of the narrow specialty of reconstruction of the hip in adults is its consistent use of survivorship analysis to demonstrate the efficacy of a variety of approaches to this procedure. This allows authors with . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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