The Initial Impact of COVID-19 on Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic caused a massive disruption in elective arthroplasty practice in the United States that to date has not been quantified. We sought to determine the impact of COVID-19 on arthroplasty volumes in the United States, how this varied across the country, and the resultant financial implications.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective analysis of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries undergoing primary and revision total knee arthroplasty (TKA) and total hip arthroplasty (THA) from January 1^st through March 31^st, 2020 with 74,080 TKAs and 54,975 THAs identified. We calculated the percent drop in average daily cases from before and after March 18, 2020. We then examined variation across states in arthroplasty case vo

SUBMITTER: Barnes CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7837224 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature