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- 1Robotic hip and knee surgery offers no repeat-operation benefit▼Robotic hip and knee surgery does not reduce risk of repeat surgery
New reporting from Healthcare in Europe states that robotic-assisted hip and knee replacement surgery does not reduce the risk of patients needing repeat surgery. The finding challenges a key claimed advantage of the increasingly popular technology, which has been widely adopted by hospitals despite its higher costs compared with conventional joint replacement procedures.