Medicaid payer status is associated with in-hospital morbidity and resource utilization following primary total joint arthroplasty

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - American Volume

Volumn 96, Issue 21, 2014, Pages e180(1)-

  Browne, James A ^a   Novicoff, Wendy M ^a   D'Apuzzo, Michele R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEMATOMA; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SEROMA; SMOKING; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; WOUND DEHISCENCE; ARTHROPLASTY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; FACTUAL DATABASE; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; UNITED STATES;

ARTHROPLASTY; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICAID; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SEROMA; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84910617725     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: 15351386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.N.00133     Document Type: Article

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