Factors Influencing Discharge Destination After Total Knee Arthroplasty

Factors Influencing Discharge Destination After Total Knee Arthroplasty

INTRODUCTION The demand for total knee arthroplasty (TKA) continues to challenge hospital financial resources. Hospitals have countered this economic demand by reducing patient length of stay (LoS), thus requiring a higher utilization of extended care facilities (ECF) and home with home health care (HHC). With an increase in the number of insured low-income families following the Affordable Car...

Factors Influencing Discharge Destination After Total Hip Arthroplasty

INTRODUCTION With this growing demand, the length of stay for total hip arthroplasty (THA) procedures has decreased, and as a trade-off, we have seen a higher utilization of extended care facilities (ECFs). Both trends have significant economic implications on the health care system, and predicting the discharge destinations of THA patients would help policy makers plan for future health expend...

factors influencing range of motion after total knee arthroplasty

Factors Influencing Range of Motion after Total Knee Arthroplasty

BACKGROUND The range of motion after a total knee arthroplasty is an important clinical outcome affecting the life of the patient. The aim of this study was to determine the most important factors influencing the postoperative knee flexion in Tehran, Iran. METHODS Between July 2007 and January 2009, on 95 cases of total knee joint replacement (89 patients), who were followed for 1 year postop...

Preoperative factors influencing the range of movement after total knee arthroplasty for severe osteoarthritis.

We report a prospective study, using multivariate analysis, of the factors which influence the range of movement after total knee arthroplasty in 74 patients with 83 arthroplasties at a mean follow-up of 23.6 months (12 to 41). All the patients had a diagnosis of osteoarthritis, a severely disabled knee with a Knee Society system score of less than 60, varus deformity, no previous surgery to th...