Is There Benefit in Keeping Early Discharge Patients Overnight After Total Joint Arthroplasty?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Total joint arthoplasty (TJA) cost containment has been a key focus for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services spawning significant research and programmatic change, including a move toward early discharge and outpatient TJA. TJA outpatients receive few, if any, medical interventions before discharge, but the type and quantity of interventions provided for TJA patients who stay overnight in the hospital is unknown. This study quantified the nature, frequency, and outcome of interventions occurring overnight after primary TJA.

Methods

1725 consecutive primary unilateral TJAs performed between 2012 and 2017 by a single surgeon in a rapid-discharge program, managed by a perioperative internal medicine specialist, were reviewed. Medical records were examined f

SUBMITTER: Kraus KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7364149 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature