March 28, 2023 | Today’s News
Today's Top Story Study Assesses the Impact of Frailty on TJA Complications and Resource Use An epidemiology and propensity score-weighted analysis in the Journal of the AAOS ® examined the effect of frailty on postoperative inpatient complications and hospital resource utilization following total joint arthroplasty (TJA). The study compared epidemiology, medical comorbidities, and postoperative clinical and economic outcomes between 136,516 TJA patients who met the criteria for frailty and 7,718,374 who were classified as non-frail. Frail patients [...]