%0 Journal Article
%T Significant cost savings and similar patient outcomes associated with early discharge following total knee arthroplasty
%A Brent A. Lanting
%A Jacquelyn Marsh
%A James L. Howard
%A Lyndsay Somerville
%J Archive of "Canadian Journal of Surgery".
%D 2019
%R 10.1503/cjs.002118
%X A substantial portion of the cost of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) results from the postoperative inpatient length of stay (LOS). Considering the annual increase in TKAs, reducing LOS represents a potential for cost savings. We sought to compare in-hospital costs and patient-reported outcomes for an early discharge protocol compared with the standard LOS following TKA
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6351266/