Quantifying the excess cost and resource utilisation for patients with complications associated with elective knee arthroscopy: A retrospective cohort study

Knee

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 491-496

  Bohensky, Megan A ^a,b   Ademi, Zanfina ^a   deSteiger, Richard ^a   Liew, Danny ^a   Sundararajan, Vijaya ^a,c   Bucknill, Andrew ^b   Kondogiannis, Chris ^b   Brand, Caroline A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Epworth HealthCare University of Melbourne ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Adverse outcomes; Arthroscopy; Cost; Epidemiology; Health services research

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS; KNEE ARTHROSCOPY; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; KNEE SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATELLA DISLOCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL INFECTION; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; ARTHROSCOPY; AUSTRALIA; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOSPITAL READMISSION; KNEE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURGERY; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ARTHROSCOPY; AUSTRALIA; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; LENGTH OF STAY; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT READMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899585478     PISSN: 09680160     EISSN: 18735800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knee.2013.11.009     Document Type: Article

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