Decreased Mortality But Increased Readmissions after Total Hip Arthroplasty
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Setting and participants. A total of 1,453,493 Medicare Part A fee-for-service beneficiaries who underwent primary total hip arthroplasty and 348,596 who underwent revision total hip arthroplasty. For primary total hip arthroplasty, to select a population whose procedures were performed electively, patients with acute fractures and those admitted through the emergency department were excluded. These types of patients were not excluded for revision total hip arthroplasty because revisions are often emergent or unscheduled. Patients were identified through ICD-9 procedure codes using Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MedPAR) data files.
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