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Abstract
To summarize the safety and feasibility of outpatient total joint arthroplasty (TJA) from the perspectives of short-term complications, long-term functional outcomes, patient satisfaction and financial impact, and to provide evidence-based guidance on how to establish an outpatient TJA programme.TJA has been recently transitioned from an exclusively inpatient procedure for all Medicare and Medicaid patients to an outpatient surgery in properly selected total knee arthroplasty patients. This change may decrease costs while maintaining comparable rates of readmission, adverse events, positive surgical outcomes and patient satisfaction.With a standardized clinical pathway, outpatient TJA can be safe and effective in a subset of patients. Essential components of a successful outpatient TJA programme include proper patient selection, preoperative patient/family education, perioperative multidisciplinary coordination and opioid-sparing analgesia, and early and effective postdischarge planning. More studies are needed to further assess and optimize this new care paradigm.
View details for DOI 10.1097/ACO.0000000000000774
View details for PubMedID 31356361