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Predicting risk of extended inpatient rehabilitation after hip or knee arthroplasty
Leonie B Oldmeadow1, Helen McBurney, Valma J Robertson
1Austin and Repatriation Medical Center, Victoria, Australia.
The Journal of Arthroplasty
|September 27, 2003
Abstract:
This study developed and validated an easily administered method of predicting a patient's risk of needing extended inpatient rehabilitation after hip or knee arthroplasty. Seven factors generated by experts and from the literature were shown to be statistically significantly related to discharge destination (P