Associations between provider and hospital volumes and postoperative mortality following total hip arthroplasty in New Brunswick: results from a provincial-level cohort study
Author(s) -
Dan L. Crouse,
Philip S.J. Leonard,
Jonathan Boudreau,
James Ted McDonald
Publication year - 2018
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.006917
Subject(s) - medicine , logistic regression , odds , total hip arthroplasty , cohort , odds ratio , emergency medicine , arthroplasty , population , demography , cohort study , surgery , environmental health , sociology
Our results suggest that patients admitted for hip replacements in New Brunswick can expect to have similar risk of death regardless of whether they are admitted to see a provider with high or low THA volumes and of whether they are admitted to the province's larger or smaller hospitals.
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