Significant cost savings and similar patient outcomes associated with early discharge following total knee arthroplasty | Zendy

Jacquelyn D. Marsh | Zendy; Lyndsay Somerville | Zendy; James L. Howard | Zendy; Brent A. Lanting | Zendy

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Significant cost savings and similar patient outcomes associated with early discharge following total knee arthroplasty

Author(s) -

Jacquelyn D. Marsh,

Lyndsay Somerville,

James L. Howard,

Brent A. Lanting

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

canadian journal of surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.609

H-Index - 64

eISSN - 1488-2310

pISSN - 0008-428X

DOI - 10.1503/cjs.002118

Subject(s) - medicine , confidence interval , body mass index , womac , arthroplasty , osteoarthritis , retrospective cohort study , propensity score matching , total knee arthroplasty , hospital discharge , surgery , anesthesia , physical therapy , alternative medicine , pathology

A substantial portion of the cost of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) results from the postoperative inpatient length of stay (LOS). Considering the annual increase in TKAs, reducing LOS represents a potential for cost savings. We sought to compare in-hospital costs and patient-reported outcomes for an early discharge protocol compared with the standard LOS following TKA.

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