Association of Social Behaviors With Community Discharge in Patients with Total Hip and Knee Replacement.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Understand the association between social determinants of health and community discharge after elective total joint arthroplasty.

Design

Retrospective cohort design using Optum de-identified electronic health record dataset.

Setting and participants

A total of 38 hospital networks and 18 non-network hospitals in the United States; 79,725 patients with total hip arthroplasty and 136,070 patients with total knee arthroplasty between 2011 and 2018.

Methods

Logistic regression models were used to examine the association among pain, weight status, smoking status, alcohol use, substance disorder, and postsurgical community discharge, adjusted for patient demographics.

Results

Mean ages for patients with hip and knee arthroplasty were 64.5 (SD 11.3)

SUBMITTER: Pritchard KT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8026771 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature