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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kramer, Jonathan D.
• Chan, Priscilla H.
• Prentice, Heather A.
• Hatch, Joshua
• Dillon, Mark T.
• Navarro, Ronald A.

Titel

Same-day discharge is not inferior to longer length of in-hospital stay for 90-day readmissions following shoulder arthroplasty

Ist Teil von

• Journal of shoulder and elbow surgery, 2020-05, Vol.29 (5), p.898-905

Ort / Verlag

United States: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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Quelle

Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Shoulder arthroplasty is a common orthopedic procedure, performed historically in the inpatient setting. However, interest in same-day discharge has increased. We sought to evaluate 90-day readmission, 90-day emergency department (ED) visit, 90-day deep infection, 90-day venous thromboembolism (VTE), and 1-year mortality after same-day shoulder arthroplasty compared with an inpatient stay. We conducted a retrospective cohort study using data from an integrated health care system’s Shoulder Arthroplasty Registry. A total of 6503 elective primary unilateral total shoulder and reverse total shoulder arthroplasties performed between 2005 and 2016 were included; 405 (6%) had same-day discharge. The likelihood of 90-day events, including readmission, ED visit, deep infection, and VTE, and 1-year mortality after same-day discharge was compared with 1- to 4-night inpatient stay using generalized estimating equations with noninferiority testing, adjusting for age, sex, body mass index, race, American Society of Anesthesiologists classification, select comorbidities, osteoarthritis, anesthesia type, procedure type, and surgeon effect. We failed to observe a difference between same-day discharge and 1- to 4-night stay in terms of 90-day readmission, 90-day ED visit, and 1-year mortality. Same-day discharge was not inferior to 1- to 4-night stay regarding 90-day readmission, but we did not have evidence to support noninferiority for 90-day ED visits or 1-year mortality. Ninety-day deep infections and VTE were too infrequent for adjusted analysis. We found same-day shoulder arthroplasty not to be inferior to an inpatient stay for 90-day readmission. Future investigation into the reasons for readmission and ED visit after same-day shoulder arthroplasty and interventions to mitigate these adverse events is needed.