Regional variation in hip and knee arthroplasty rates in Switzerland: A population-based small area analysis

• Maria M. Wertli ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: Maria.Wertli@insel.ch

  Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine, Bern University Hospital, Inselspital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6347-0198

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• Judith M. Schlapbach,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine, Bern University Hospital, Inselspital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Alan G. Haynes,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, CTU Bern, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Claudia Scheuter,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine, Bern University Hospital, Inselspital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Sabrina N. Jegerlehner,

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine, Bern University Hospital, Inselspital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Radoslaw Panczak,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Queensland Centre for Population Research, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5141-683X

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• Arnaud Chiolero,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Primary Health Care (BIHAM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, Population Health Laboratory (#PopHealthLab), University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

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• Nicolas Rodondi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of General Internal Medicine, Bern University Hospital, Inselspital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Institute of Primary Health Care (BIHAM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Drahomir Aujesky

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine, Bern University Hospital, Inselspital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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