Clinical characteristics and outcomes of medicare patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty, 1991-2008

JAMA

Volumn 305, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 1560-1567

  Cram, Peter ^a,b   Lu, Xin ^a   Kaboli, Peter J ^a,b   Vaughan Sarrazin, Mary S ^a,b   Cai, Xueya ^a   Wolf, Brian R ^a   Li, Yue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; AFTERCARE; AGE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; MALE; REOPERATION; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AFTERCARE; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICARE PART A; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT READMISSION; REOPERATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955013057     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2011.478     Document Type: Article

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