Decreased length of stay after TKA is not associated with increased readmission rates in a national medicare sample

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 470, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 166-171

  Vorhies, John S ^a   Wang, Yun ^b,c   Herndon, James H ^d   Maloney, William J ^a   Huddleston, James I ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b QUALIDIGM   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID BASE BALANCE; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; COST CONTROL; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICARE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOM; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; VERY ELDERLY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIABETES MELLITUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEART FAILURE; INCIDENCE; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT READMISSION; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865082438     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-011-1957-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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