Hospital Volume as a Source of Variation for Major Complications and Early In-Hospital Mortality After Total Joint Arthroplasty.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although the effects of hospital volume on mortality have been studied in other procedures, data on total joint arthroplasty (TJA) are limited. Furthermore, mortality rate among surgical patients with early major complications has become an important patient safety indicator and has been shown to be an important driver of mortality in certain operations. Our objective was to examine the effect of hospital volume on early complications and in-hospital mortality rate after TJA.

Material and methods

A total of 5,396,644 patients undergoing elective, unilateral TJA between 2002 and 2011 were identified using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample database. Hospitals were divided by annual volume into tertiles. Major complications associated with postoperative mortality were

SUBMITTER: D'Apuzzo MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9142843 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature