Effectiveness of best practice implementation in reducing hip arthroplasty length of stay |
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Authors: | Peterson Margaret G E Cioppa-Mosca JeMe Finerty Eileen Graziano Suzanne King Sue Sculco Thomas P |
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Affiliation: | Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY 10021, USA. |
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Abstract: | A transfer of a best practice model was performed between a new institution in the United Kingdom and a leading orthopedic hospital in the United States. The quality concepts transferred to the UK were surgical and hospital throughput, hospital facility design, an Interdisciplinary Preoperative Patient Education Program, infection control standards, and a standardized rehabilitation model. The new hospital was officially opened in February 2004, and the average length of stay for total hip arthroplasty between February and December 2004 was 6.1 +/- 3.0 days, a substantial reduction of 5 days on average. The infection rate was reduced from 1% to 0.16%. This study supports the notion that the implementation of a best practice approach significantly reduces length of stay as well as infection rate. |
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Keywords: | total hip arthroplasty length of stay best practices knowledge transfer |
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