Incidence and risk factors of blood transfusion after total knee arthroplasty: A retrospective nationwide inpatient sample database study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Common postoperative complications of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) include blood transfusion. Although risk factors and incidence of blood transfusion have been studied through national databases, the relative impact of each risk factor needs to be synthesized over a longer time period into a new model need to be revised.

Material and methods

Patient data were extracted from the National Inpatient Sample (NIS), which is the largest hospital care database in the US, and analyse patient data retrospectively from 2010 through 2019. The final data included the patients undergoing TKA. The final analysis assessed the demographics of patients, type of insurance, type of hospital, length of stay (LOS), preoperative comorbidities, total charge, inpatient mortality, med

SUBMITTER: Huang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11298927 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature