Two-Day Length of Stay is Not Inferior to 3 Days in Total Knee Arthroplasty with Regards to 30-Day Readmissions

Journal of Arthroplasty

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 733-738

  Bini, Stefano A ^a   Inacio, Maria C S ^b   Cafri, Guy ^b  

^a KAISER PERMANENTE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Length of stay; Non inferiority; Readmission; Risk factors; Total knee arthroplasty

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; AGED; ARTICLE; CELLULITIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLANATORY VARIABLE; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; KNEE PROSTHESIS; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEPTICEMIA; SURGICAL PATIENT; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; ALGORITHM; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT READMISSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84929029012     PISSN: 08835403     EISSN: 15328406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arth.2014.12.006     Document Type: Article

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