Choice of hospital for revision total hip replacement.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Little is known about how often patients have revision total hip replacement in the same hospital in which they had the primary procedure.

Methods

We examined Medicare claims data to identify patients who had primary total hip replacement from July 1995 to June 1996 and subsequently had revision through December 31, 2006. We examined whether the revision was performed in the same or different hospital from the primary procedure, with different hospitals being categorized as being in a lower, a higher, or the same hospital volume stratum. Hospital strata included twenty-five or fewer cases of total hip replacement annually in the Medicare population, twenty-six to fifty cases, fifty-one to 100 cases, and >100 cases. We calculated the number of revisions generated (

SUBMITTER: Katz JN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2991067 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature