Rates and Outcomes of Primary and Revision Total Hip Replacement in the United States Medicare Population

Socioeconomic burden of total joint arthroplasty for symptomatic hip and knee osteoarthritis in the Italian population: A 5‐year analysis based on hospitalization records

“…Using results from the analysis of the Tuscany databases, the mean incidence of postoperative complications was assumed not to exceed 0.5%. This assumption was consistent with the lowest rates reported in the current medical literature for each considered variable: postoperative infections (13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19), pulmonary embolism (19 -23), deep vein thrombosis (24 -27), and mortality (19,28 -35). We estimated the loss of productivity among patients ages Ͻ65 years in terms of working days lost by analyzing the average hospitalization LOS and rehabilitation period, which resulted from the analysis of the national hospitalization database.…”

“…In 2006, Doro et al reported mortality following these surgical procedures to be 0.16 -0.29% (30). Mahomed et al showed that the rates of complications occurring within 90 days after primary total hip replacement were likely to be 1.0% for mortality, 0.9% for pulmonary embolism, and 0.2% for wound infection (19). Blom and colleagues assessed early postoperative mortality in an unselected consecutive series of 1,727 primary THAs where patients had not routinely received chemothromboprophylaxis, reporting a 3-month mortality rate of 1% (31).…”

Prosthetic Joint Infection Risk after TKA in the Medicare Population

“…In the United States, where a joint arthroplasty registry has not yet been implemented, the Medicare claims data have been used effectively in longitudinal analysis of mortality, morbidity, and revision after joint arthroplasty [1,11,12]. Because of its comprehensive nationwide coverage, Medicare claims data have the potential to serve as a framework for longitudinal analysis of infections for the United States.…”

Early Mortality after Modern Total Hip Arthroplasty

“…Emerging demographic and epidemiologic studies are projecting large increases in the demand for primary and revision arthroplasty over the next two decades [14][15][16]. Furthermore, THA is being performed in patients who are older and infirm [1,12,13,21,22,35,38,41].…”