Risk-Adjusted Hospital Outcomes in Medicare Total Joint Replacement Surgical Procedures

Conclusions:
Risk-adjusted outcomes demonstrate wide variability and illustrate the need for improvement among poorer-performing hospitals for bundled payments of joint replacement surgical procedures.

Clinical Relevance:
Adverse outcomes are known to occur in the experience of all clinicians and hospitals. The risk-adjusted benchmarking of hospital performance permits the identification of adverse events that are potentially preventable.

Source: JBJS - January 3, 2017 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Fry, D. E., Pine, M., Nedza, S. M., Locke, D. G., Reband, A. M., Pine, G. Tags: Hip, Knee Scientific Articles Source Type: research