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Business Combination, Contingent Consideration, Future Milestone Payments

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Business Combination, Par Value of Ordinary Shares of Acquiree

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Amount of consideration transferred, consisting of acquisition-date fair value of assets transferred by the acquirer, liabilities incurred by the acquirer, and equity interest issued by the acquirer.

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The cash outflow associated with the acquisition of a business, net of the cash acquired from the purchase.

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Acquisitions (Narrative) (Details) $ / shares in Units, $ in Millions			1 Months Ended			3 Months Ended
	Dec. 13, 2019 € / shares	Dec. 13, 2019 $ / shares	Nov. 30, 2019 USD ($) $ / shares	Oct. 31, 2019 USD ($)	Mar. 31, 2019 USD ($)	Mar. 31, 2020 USD ($)	Mar. 31, 2019 USD ($)
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Aggregate purchase price of acquisitions						$ 23	$ 308
Acquisitions, net of cash acquired						$ 23	$ 180
Mobius
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Aggregate purchase price of acquisitions				$ 360
Future milestone payments				$ 130
OrthoSpace, Ltd.
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Aggregate purchase price of acquisitions					$ 110
Future milestone payments					$ 110
Wright
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Consideration transferred (in dollars per share) \| $ / shares		$ 30.75	$ 30.75
Acquisitions, net of cash acquired			$ 5,400
Par value of ordinary shares of acquiree (in dollars per share) \| € / shares	€ 0.03