TY - JOUR
T1 - Hospital Readmission and Costs of Total Knee Replacement Surgery in 2009 and 2014
T2 - Potential Implications for Health Care Managers
AU - Cary, Michael P.
AU - Goode, Victoria
AU - Crego, Nancy
AU - Thornlow, Deirdre
AU - Colón-Emeric, Cathleen
AU - Van Houtven, Courtney
AU - Merwin, Elizabeth I.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - The purpose of this article is to describe changes in hospital readmissions and costs for US hospital patients who underwent total knee replacement (TKR) in 2009 and 2014. Data came from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project net-Nationwide Readmissions Database. Compared with 2009, overall 30-day rates of readmissions after TKR decreased by 15% in 2014. Rates varied by demographics: readmission rates were lower for younger patients, males, Medicare recipients, and those with higher incomes. Overall, costs rose 20% across TKR groups. This report is among the first to describe changes in hospital readmissions and costs for TKR patients in a national sample of US acute care hospitals. Findings offer hospital managers a mechanism to benchmark their facilities' performances.
AB - The purpose of this article is to describe changes in hospital readmissions and costs for US hospital patients who underwent total knee replacement (TKR) in 2009 and 2014. Data came from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project net-Nationwide Readmissions Database. Compared with 2009, overall 30-day rates of readmissions after TKR decreased by 15% in 2014. Rates varied by demographics: readmission rates were lower for younger patients, males, Medicare recipients, and those with higher incomes. Overall, costs rose 20% across TKR groups. This report is among the first to describe changes in hospital readmissions and costs for TKR patients in a national sample of US acute care hospitals. Findings offer hospital managers a mechanism to benchmark their facilities' performances.
KW - health services research
KW - hospital readmissions
KW - national health policy
KW - quality improvement
KW - total knee replacement
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U2 - 10.1097/HCM.0000000000000246
DO - 10.1097/HCM.0000000000000246
M3 - Article
C2 - 30640242
AN - SCOPUS:85060549140
SN - 1525-5794
VL - 38
SP - 24
EP - 28
JO - Health Care Manager
JF - Health Care Manager
IS - 1
ER -