Transition to outpatient total hip and knee arthroplasty: experience at an academic tertiary care center.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Interest in outpatient total hip arthroplasty (THA) and total knee arthroplasty (TKA) has increased recently as part of value-based care and early recovery protocols. Outpatient pathways require significant paradigm shifts, are not used widely, and are mostly implemented at outpatient surgery centers or orthopedic specialty hospitals. In this article, we report on the outcomes of implementation of an outpatient arthroplasty protocol at a tertiary care academic medical center.

Methods

We performed a retrospective review on a series of 105 consecutive patients who underwent THA or TKA following our newly implemented outpatient arthroplasty protocol. We compared these patients to a group of inpatient arthroplasty patients from the same time period.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Gogineni HC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6470322 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature