Characterization of Re-admission and Emergency Department Visits Within 90 Days Following Lower-Extremity Arthroplasty.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Acute care events including emergency department (ED) visits and unscheduled inpatient re-admissions following lower-extremity arthroplasty are not fully understood.

Question/purposes

The purpose of this study was to characterize acute care events occurring after discharge in patients who received a lower-extremity arthroplasty: the incidence, timing, and risk factors of inpatient admission and ED visits within 90 days of discharge.

Methods

The New York State Inpatient and Emergency Department Databases were used to identify patients who underwent elective total knee arthroplasty (TKA) or total hip arthroplasty (THA) from 2009 to 2013 (124,234 and 76,411 patients, respectively). Multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to determine the predictors

SUBMITTER: Huerfano E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6148588 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature