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The article discusses a study to evaluate whether mortality and implant revision rates differ in osteoarthritis patients undergoing cemented or uncemented total hip replacement or hip resurfacing. The study concluded that Flexible parametric survival analyses, adjusted for confounding factors, identified a slightly higher mortality rate and a slightly lower revision rate for patients undergoing cemented rather than uncemented total hip replacement.

The article discusses the accuracy of spot urine tests in diagnosing proteinuria or adverse pregnancy outcome in pregnant women with suspected pre-eclampsia. It highlights the result of the multivariate random analysis of several electronic databases from 1980 to January 2011 for eligible diagnostic studies related to the case. The result indicates that data from the tests and analysis showed limited quality of the primary research.