Thirty-Day Unplanned Readmission after Total Knee Arthroplasty at a Teaching Community Hospital: Rates, Reasons, and Risk Factors.
Aged
Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee
/ adverse effects
Comorbidity
Databases, Factual
Female
Hospitals, Community
/ statistics & numerical data
Hospitals, Teaching
/ statistics & numerical data
Humans
Incidence
Male
Middle Aged
Patient Readmission
/ statistics & numerical data
Retrospective Studies
Risk Factors
United States
Journal
The journal of knee surgery
ISSN: 1938-2480
Titre abrégé: J Knee Surg
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 101137599
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Feb 2020
Feb 2020
Historique:
pubmed:
11
1
2019
medline:
13
8
2020
entrez:
11
1
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Unplanned readmission after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) has an increasing prevalence in the United States. Readmissions are now a metric for hospital quality of care, yet there are mixed results and variables associated with unplanned readmission. In this changing healthcare, it is critical for community healthcare institutions to identify risk factors for unplanned readmissions following TKA. Retrospective chart review and a hospital administrative database query to report causes, demographics, and medical comorbid risk factors result in 30-day readmission after undergoing primary TKA between 2011 and 2016 at a teaching community hospital. This study identified 7,482 primary TKA procedures of which 210 (2.8%) were unplanned readmissions. Gastrointestinal bleed (9.05%) and periprosthetic infection (8.10%) were the most common causes of readmission. Age 65 and older (odds ratio [OR], 1.64; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.21-2.21;
Identifiants
pubmed: 30630209
doi: 10.1055/s-0038-1677510
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
206-212Informations de copyright
Thieme Medical Publishers 333 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10001, USA.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
None declared.