Revision Total Hip Arthroplasty for the Treatment of Fracture: More Expensive, More Complications, Same Diagnosis-Related GroupsA Local and National Cohort Study
Revision Total Hip Arthroplasty for the Treatment of Fracture: More Expensive, More Complications, Same Diagnosis-Related GroupsA Local and National Cohort Study (Ovid).
Revision total hip arthroplasty (revision THA) occurs for a wide variety of indications and in the United States it is coded under Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRGs) 466, 467, and 468, which do not account for revision etiology, a potentially substantial driver of
cost.
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Hospitalization costs for revision THA for fracture were 33% to 48% higher than
for all other aseptic revision THAs, both locally and nationally. This
increased cost persisted even after multivariable comorbidity adjustment, the
current DRG basis for stratifying revision THA reimbursement.
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Quelle: Ovid, 14.05.2019