total joint replacement

In the year 2000, the average length of hospital stay for hip and knee replacement patients in the United States was more than four days. By 2014, that number had halved to just over two days. This trend toward shorter lengths of stay ultimately resulted in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services removing total knee replacement (TKR) from the inpatient-only list in 2018, allowing TKR to be performed in inpatient or outpatient hospital settings. Total hip replacement (THR) was removed from … [Read more...] about How Outpatient Total Joint Replacement has Improved