Impact of postoperative venous thromboembolism on Medicare recipients undergoing total hip replacement or total knee replacement surgery

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Hip Replacement Arthroplasties 84%
• Venous Thromboembolism 77%
• Medicare 74%
• Knee Replacement Arthroplasties 72%
• Costs and Cost Analysis 31%
• Hospitalization 15%
• Pulmonary Embolism 14%
• Hemorrhage 13%
• Venous Thrombosis 13%
• Mortality 10%
• Risk Adjustment 9%
• Managed Care Programs 8%
• Hip Fractures 7%
• Propensity Score 7%
• Health Expenditures 7%
• International Classification of Diseases 7%
• Length of Stay 5%
• Health Care Outcome Assessment 4%
• Delivery of Health Care 4%

Social Sciences

• surgery 74%
• recipient 60%
• costs 40%
• hospitalization 34%
• mortality 25%
• eligible patients 17%
• risk adjustment 16%
• International Classification 13%
• managed care 11%
• event 11%
• expenditures 9%
• health care 7%
• experience 3%

Chemical Compounds

• Hip 100%
• Length 10%
• Modification 9%
• Time 6%