A preoperative education class reduces length of stay for total knee replacement patients identified at risk of an extended length of stay
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Preoperative predictors of extended hospital length of stay following total knee arthroplasty.
The purpose of this study was to identify the preoperative predictors of hospital length of stay after primary total knee arthroplasty in a patient population reflecting current trends toward shorter hospitalization and using readily obtainable factors that do not require scoring systems. A single-center, multi-surgeon retrospective chart review of two hundred and sixty consecutive patients who...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1650-1977
DOI: 10.2340/16501977-2602