Increasing financial burden of revision total knee arthroplasty
| Autor: | Simi P. Bashir, Raymond J. Walls, Kevin J. Mulhall, Diarmuid C. Molony, Kayode O. Oduwole |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Male Reoperation medicine.medical_specialty Prosthesis-Related Infections Adolescent Demographics Total cost medicine.medical_treatment Young Adult medicine Humans Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Young adult Arthroplasty Replacement Knee Aged Aged 80 and over Finance business.industry Health Care Costs Length of Stay Middle Aged Arthroplasty Surgery Orthopedic surgery Female Aseptic processing Implant business Ireland Revision total knee arthroplasty |
| Zdroj: | Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy. 18:945-948 |
| ISSN: | 1433-7347 0942-2056 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00167-010-1074-8 |
| Popis: | We reviewed the peri-operative and financial data of patients who underwent revision total knee arthroplasty in our institution between 1997 and 2006. The aims were to compare difference in cost between aseptic and septic cases and to identify the sources of preventable cost increase in revision knee procedure. The study group comprised 117 women (65%) and 62 men (35%). The median age of patients decreased from 73 years (37–83 years) in 1997–2001 to 70 years (15–91 years) in 2002–2006, a decline of 4% (P |
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