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Response to: ‘Association between bisphosphonate use and risk of undergoing knee replacement in osteoarthritis patients’ by Chen et al
  1. Tuhina Neogi,
  2. Shanshan Sheehy,
  3. Christine Peloquin,
  4. Devyani Misra,
  5. Yuqing Zhang
  1. Clinical Epidemiology Research Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Tuhina Neogi, Clinical Epidemiology Research Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA; tneogi{at}bu.edu

https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2018-213018

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    We thank Dr Chen and colleagues for their interest in our paper.1 As outlined in our paper,2 the definition of knee osteoarthritis (OA) was based on diagnosis by the patient’s general practitioner (GP), which is recorded as a read code in The Health Improvement Network (THIN). Because these are patients who are being …

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    • Handling editor Josef S Smolen

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

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