Outpatient surgery as a means of cost reduction in total hip arthroplasty: a case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The current healthcare market coupled with expedited recovery and improvements in analgesia have led to the development of total hip arthroplasty being performed as an outpatient procedure in selected patients.

Questions/purposes

The purpose of this study is to compare outcomes and cost-effectiveness of traditional inpatient THA with outpatient hip replacement at the same facility.

Patients and methods

This observational, case-control study was conducted from 2008 to 2011. One hundred nineteen patients underwent outpatient THA through a direct anterior approach. These cases were all performed by a single surgeon. Outpatient cases were then compared to inpatient hospital controls performed by the same surgeon at the inpatient hospital facility.

Results

SUBMITTER: Aynardi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4171452 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature