Clinical and cost outcomes of venous thromboembolism in medicare patients undergoing total hip replacement or total knee replacement surgery

Current Medical Research and Opinion

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 423-429

  Baser, Onur ^a,b   Supina, Dylan ^c   Sengupta, Nishan ^c   Wang, Li ^b   Kwong, Louis ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b STATINMED RESEARCH   (United States)

^c JOHNSON AND JOHNSON PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^d HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Costs; Medicare; Total hip replacement; Total knee replacement; Venous thromboembolism

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; COMORBIDITY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; JOINT PROSTHESIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CODING; SCORING SYSTEM; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; COHORT STUDIES; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 78651397498     PISSN: 03007995     EISSN: 14734877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1185/03007995.2010.545940     Document Type: Article

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