Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CHICAGO — Results showed “non-white,” Hispanic and non-English-speaking patients were more likely to attend ...
Payer contracts, surgeon leadership, clinical pathways and a commitment to superior care are the key elements of a successful outpatient total joint program, according to Andrea Lessner, BSN, RN, ...
“Streamlining patient education not only guaranteed patients received the correct pre and post-operative instructions for joint replacement, but it ensured that patients would thoroughly be prepared ...
The Total Joint Center of St. Louis, an affiliate of United Surgical Partners International, opened in 2014, with the first case performed in October of that same year. Since then, surgeons have ...
TJA outcomes for unstably housed patients are comparable to those of stably housed patients, challenging preconceptions about surgical candidacy. Unstably housed patients showed higher prevalence of ...
Nurses have discovered in their professional role, that the concept of "empowerment" involves the development and performance of a responsible action that will ultimately generate positive results at ...
In the year before total knee arthroplasty (TKA), patients incur considerable costs for nonoperative treatments and other procedures for osteoarthritis (OA) – raising questions about the value of ...
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A 40-year study by Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) researchers has found that active young adults who underwent total knee replacement were unlikely to require knee ...