The effect of obesity on direct medical costs in total knee arthroplasty

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 96, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 718-724

  Kremers, Hilal Maradit ^a   Visscher, Sue L ^a   Kremers, Walter K ^a   Naessens, James M ^a   Lewallen, David G ^b  

^a Mayo Clinic College of Medicine   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; KNEE FRACTURE; KNEE INSTABILITY; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICARE; OBESITY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; UNITED STATES;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; COHORT STUDIES; DIRECT SERVICE COSTS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA; OBESITY; REOPERATION;

EID: 84900308121     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: 15351386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.M.00819     Document Type: Article

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