Ninety-Day Costs, Reoperations, and Readmissions for Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty Patients With Varying Body Mass Index Levels.

Ninety-Day Costs, Reoperations, and Readmissions for Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty Patients With Varying Body Mass Index Levels. [PubMed]
J Arthroplasty. 2018 Jul;33(7S):S157-S161.

• A retrospective review of a Canadian institutional database of total knee arthroplasty patients from 2006 to 2013 with a minimum of 3-year follow-up found that 90 day costs were signficantly higher for super- and morbidly- obese patients resulting from higher readmission.

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