Variation in hospital-level risk-standardized complication rates following elective primary total hip and knee arthroplasty

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 96, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 640-647

  Bozic, Kevin J ^a   Grosso, Laura M ^b   Lin, Zhenqiu ^b   Parzynski, Craig S ^b   Suter, Lisa G ^b   Krumholz, Harlan M ^b   Lieberman, Jay R ^c   Berry, Daniel J ^d   Bucholz, Robert ^e   Han, Lein ^f   Rapp, Michael T ^f   Bernheim, Susannah ^b   Drye, Elizabeth E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Yale New Haven Ctr Outcomes Res/E   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^e University of Texas Southwestern   (United States)

^f Centers for Medicare   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; PERIPROSTHETIC JOINT INFECTION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CALORIE MALNUTRITION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPSIS; SURGICAL INFECTION; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84899010177     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: 15351386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.L.01639     Document Type: Article

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