Back to Search
Start Over
Correlation between physician specific discharge costs, LOS, and 30-day readmission rates: an analysis of 1,831 cases
- Source :
- The Journal of arthroplasty. 29(9)
- Publication Year :
- 2014
-
Abstract
- There is currently wide variation in the use and cost of post acute care following total joint arthroplasty. Additionally the optimum setting to which patients should be discharged after surgery is controversial. Discharge patterns following joint replacement vary widely between physicians at our institution, however, only weak correlations were found between the cost of discharge and length of stay or readmission rates. The inter-physician variance in discharge cost did not correlate to a difference in quality, as measured by length of stay and readmission rates, but does imply there is significant opportunity to modify physician discharge practices without impacting patient outcomes and the quality of care.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Joint arthroplasty
Joint replacement
medicine.medical_treatment
Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip
Specific discharge
Comorbidity
Medicare
Patient Readmission
Post acute care
Correlation
Physicians
Outcome Assessment, Health Care
medicine
Humans
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Total joint replacement
Quality of care
Intensive care medicine
Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee
Aged
Retrospective Studies
Aged, 80 and over
Insurance, Health
business.industry
Incidence
Length of Stay
Middle Aged
Patient Discharge
United States
Female
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15328406
- Volume :
- 29
- Issue :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Journal of arthroplasty
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....84d3f0e809f98de4617d533dc52faf70