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Medicare/Medicaid Insurance Status Is Associated With Reduced Lower Bilateral Knee Arthroplasty Utilization and Higher Complication Rates

Whether to undergo bilateral total knee arthroplasty (BTKA) depends on patient and surgeon preferences. We used the National Inpatient Sample to compare temporal trends in BTKA utilization and in-hospital complication rates among TKA patients ≥50 with Medicare/Medicaid versus private insurance from...

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Autores principales: Mehta, Bella, Ho, Kaylee, Bido, Jennifer, Memtsoudis, Stavros G., Parks, Michael L., Russell, Linda, Goodman, Susan M., Ibrahim, Said
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10566829/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35472007
http://dx.doi.org/10.5435/JAAOSGlobal-D-21-00016