The cost of outpatient versus inpatient total hip arthroplasty: a randomized trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

One route to mitigate the increasing costs of total hip arthroplasty (THA) is outpatient THA, discharging patients on the same day as their surgery. The purpose of this study was to compare the cost of outpatient THA to standard overnight stay in hospital.

Methods

This was a preliminary analysis of the first group of patients to complete follow-up in a larger randomized controlled trial among patients who underwent primary THA through a direct anterior approach between June 2015 and November 2017. The study was conducted at a single centre among patients of 1 fellowship-trained arthroplasty surgeon. We randomly allocated participants to be discharged either as outpatients or on postsurgery day 1 using a modified Zelen consent model. Adverse events were recorded. P

SUBMITTER: Zomar BO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9451501 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature