Are All Patients Going Home After Total Knee Arthroplasty?: A Temporal Analysis of Discharge Trends and Predictors of Non-home Discharge (2011 to 2020).

Xuankang PanJames XuPedro J RullanIgnacio PasqualiniViktor E KrebsRobert MolloyNicolas Santiago Piuzzi

Published in: The journal of knee surgery (2023)

Over the last decade there has been a major shift to home discharge after TKA. Future work is needed to further assess if perioperative interventions may have a positive effect in decreasing adverse outcomes in non-home discharge patients.

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