Clinical and Economic Characteristics of Total Hip Replacement Patients with High Health Care Costs and High Health Care Use
| Autor: | Russel Burge, Zhanglin Cui, Yi Chen, Michael J. Schoenfeld, Elizabeth Nicole Bush |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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musculoskeletal diseases medicine.medical_specialty Weakness Databases Factual Arthroplasty Replacement Hip Total hip replacement Physical Therapy Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation Logistic regression Ambulatory care International Classification of Diseases Health care medicine Humans Aged Muscle Weakness Hip Fractures business.industry Rehabilitation Health Care Costs Emergency department Health Services Length of Stay Middle Aged United States Hospitalization Muscular Atrophy Emergency medicine Physical therapy Female medicine.symptom business Inpatient rehabilitation Total hip arthroplasty |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. 94:269-279 |
| ISSN: | 0894-9115 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/phm.0000000000000154 |
| Popis: | OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were to confirm whether total hip arthroplasty (THA) patients with muscle atrophy/weakness (MAW) have high health care costs and resource use and to identify the characteristics that contribute to these high costs and use. DESIGN This study analyzed claims from United States patients who underwent THA identified from commercial (n = 25,249) and Medicare (n = 22,472) insurance databases to compare demographics, health care costs, and resource use among patients with or without MAW. The patients were classified into three separate cohorts: pre-MAW (having MAW during the 12 mos before THA), post-MAW (having MAW during the 12 mos after THA, and no-MAW (no MAW claim). Characteristics of the THA patients associated with high health care costs were examined by multiple logistic regression, and subgroups of patients with high cost and high resource use were identified by classification and regression tree analyses. RESULTS Health care use and costs were significantly higher for the THA patients with MAW, who had greater likelihood of inpatient and emergency department use and stays at skilled nursing facilities than the no-MAW patients. Classification and regression tree identified subgroups of high-cost patients as those with MAW having extended hospital stays and more outpatient visits. CONCLUSIONS THA patients with MAW are at greater risk for high health care costs and resource consumption, including longer hospital stays, increased outpatient visits, and stays at skilled nursing and inpatient rehabilitation facilities. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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