Background Total joint arthroplasty (TJA) is one of the most common surgical procedures in
the United States; however, racial and ethnic disparities in utilizations and outcomes have …

Background To capture various social determinants of health, recent analyses have used
comprehensive measures of socioeconomic disadvantage such as deprivation and …

Importance The Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) model is Medicare's
mandatory bundled payment reform to improve quality and spending for beneficiaries who …

Importance Although remote patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) monitoring has
shown promising results in cancer care, there is a lack of research on PROM monitoring in …

Background Obesity is associated with higher rates of adverse outcomes following primary
total hip arthroplasty (THA). The purpose of this study is to utilize 3 national databases to …

Background Unabated increases in the prevalence of obesity among American adults have
disproportionately affected women, Black persons, and Hispanic persons. The purpose of …

Total joint arthroplasty (TJA) is an effective elective surgical procedure for knee and hip
osteoarthritis (OA), yet racial disparities in the use of and outcomes from TJA have been …

Objective To assess the impact of neighborhood-level socioeconomic status factors (area
deprivation index [ADI] and rural classification) and their interaction with individual-level …

Objective To understand whether the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR)
program induces participating hospitals to (1) preferentially select lower risk patients,(2) …

It is unknown if the National Inpatient Sample (NIS) remains suitable to conduct projections
for total knee arthroplasty (TKA) and total hip arthroplasty (THA), after their removal from …