Frailty and associated healthcare expenditures among patients undergoing total hip and knee arthroplasty.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Major joint surgery is one of the largest components of Medicare spending in the US and the most frequent major procedure performed in older adults. Increasing age is associated with increasing prevalence of frailty, but the influence of frailty on healthcare expenditures following arthroplasty has yet to be adequately explored.

Objective

To explore the association between frailty and healthcare expenditures in the year following total hip and knee arthroplasties.

Design

Retrospective cohort study SETTING: United States population PARTICIPANTS: Medicare beneficiaries 65 and older undergoing total knee or hip arthroplasty (n = 1,152,872) from 2017 through 2018.

Measurements

Claims-based frailty index (exposure), total 1-year Medicare expenditures brok

SUBMITTER: Ron D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12184003 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature