“…Patients who have UKAs generally have shorter hospital stays [7,30,39], and the procedure appears cost-effective when measured in units of quality-adjusted years [38,39]. Some studies of the survivorship of prostheses used in UKA, regardless of type, have reported poor survivorship rates, when compared with prostheses used in TKA [17,23,25], whereas others report 10-and 15-year survivorship rates of 85% to 95% for UKA comparable to those for TKA [14,34,36]. One report suggests the higher reported survival of UKA in some studies relates to patient selection, improved surgical technique, and better prosthetic design [34].…”