The goal of this observational study is to assess the effect of living alone on total hip arthroplasty thirty-day outcomes. The main questions it aims to answer are: Is living alone associated with discharge disposition (home versus non-home)? Is living alone associated with greater incidences of secondary adverse events? Participants will be sampled from the 2021 American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
5,677
Home support: living alone
Home support: living with others
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Discharge disposition
Home versus non-home
Time frame: Thirty days
Requiring home services
Time frame: Thirty days
Functional status at discharge
Dependent versus independent
Time frame: Thirty days
Postoperative delirium
Time frame: Thirty days
Hospital length of stay
Time frame: Thirty days
Unplanned resource utilization
Unplanned readmission and return to the operating room
Time frame: Thirty days
Wound complications
Superficial surgical site infection (SSI), deep incisional SSI, organ space SSI, and wound dehiscence
Time frame: Thirty days
Systemic complications
Cardiac arrest, myocardial infarction, stroke, reintubation, pneumonia, deep venous thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, bleeding, sepsis, septic shock, and acute kidney injury
Time frame: Thirty days
Bleeding events
Requiring transfusion
Time frame: Thirty days
Mortality
Time frame: Thirty days
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