Research Director's Report

​The preoperative Oxford knee score is an independent predictor of achieving a postoperative ceiling score after total knee arthroplasty
N.Clement I. Afzal, D.Deehan, R.Field, D. Kader
Bone and Joint Journal, 2020

The theoretical mortality risk of an asymptomatic patient with a negative SARS-CoV-2 test developing COVID-19 following elective orthopaedic surgery
N Kader, Nick D. Clement, V Patel, N Caplan, P Banaszkiewicz, D Kader
Bone and Joint Journal, 2020


Cohort profile: Preliminary experience of 500 COVID-19 postive cases at a South West London District General Hospital.
R E Field, I Afzal, J Dixon, V R Patel, P Sarkar, J E Marsh
MedRxiv, 2020

Hawthorne effect on surgical studies
C. Demetriou, L. Hu, T. O. Smith, C. B. Hing
ANZ Journal of Surgery, 2019

There is no clinically important difference in the Oxford knee scores between 1 and 2 years after total knee arthroplasty: the 1 year score could be used as the benchmark time point to assess outcome
N Clement, I Afzal, C Demetriou, D Deehan, R Field, D Kader
The Knee, 2020

Evidence based suggestions for the return to elective orthopaedic surgery following the COVID-19 pandemic
S Radha and I Afzal
TJTO&C - The Transient Journal of Trauma, Orthopaedics and the Coronavirus, 2020

A systematic review of image less hand held robotic assisted knee arthroplasty: learning curve, accuracy, functional outcome and survivorship."
M. Al-Zibari, N Clement, I Afzal, D Deehan, D Kader
EFORT Open Reviews, 2020

Can Body Height Be Used to Predict Knee Implant Sizes?
L. Hu, I Afzal, R. Twyman, D Kader
Journal of Clinical Research and Reports, 2020         

Best practice guidelines for arthroscopic intervention in femoroacetabular impingement syndrome: results from an International Delphi Consensus Project—Phase 1.
Radha, S., Hutt, J., Lall, A., Domb, B., Lynch, T., Griffin, D., Field, R. and Chuck-Cakic, J.
Journal of Hip Preservation Surgery, 2019

Validation of revision data for total hip and knee replacements undertaken at a high volume orthopaedic centre against data held on the National Joint Registry
I. Afzal, S. Radha, T. Smoljanović, G. Stafford, R.Twyman, RE. Field
Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research, 2019    

Three-year results of a polycarbonate urethane acetabular bearing in total hip arthroplasty
S Lazic ,  C Kellett, I Afzal , R Mohan , V Killampalli and RE Field
Hip International – 2019

Day-case surgery for total hip and knee replacement
How safe and effective is it?
S Lazic, O Boughton, CF Kellett, Deiary F. Kader, L Villet and C Rivière
EFORT Open Reviews 2018​​

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