Comorbidities in patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty: do they influence hospital costs and length of stay?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Increasing national expenditures and use associated with TKA have resulted in pressure to reduce costs through various reimbursement cuts. However, within the arthroplasty literature, few studies have examined the association of medical comorbidities on resource use and length of stay after joint arthroplasty.

Questions/purposes

The purpose of this study was to examine the association between individual patient characteristics (including demographic factors and medical comorbidities) on resource allocation and length of stay (LOS) after TKA.

Methods

We queried the 2009 Nationwide Inpatient Sample dataset for International Classification of Diseases, 9(th) Revision code, 81.54, for TKAs. An initial 621,029-patient cohort was narrowed to 516,745 after inclusi

SUBMITTER: Pugely AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4397785 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature