PARTICIPANTS :Six ACGME accredited orthopedic surgery residency programs. RESULTS :Even after controlling for annual variation in surrounding hospital rates, the at-risk patient volume, and variation in starting rates for a given hospital in the first available year, multivariate linear regression ...
OBJECTIVE: The influence of residency programs on teaching hospital outcomes in total joint arthroplasty (TJA) has recently been debated. This study investigates how complication and readmission rates for primary elective total hip (THA) and total knee arthroplasty (TKA) changed before and after new ...