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JOURNAL OF ARTHROPLASTY
Volume 27, Issue 8, Pages 61-65Publisher
CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE INC MEDICAL PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1016/j.arth.2012.02.022
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periprosthetic joint infection; total knee arthroplasty; total hip arthroplasty
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This study characterizes the patient and clinical factors influencing the economic burden of periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) in the United States. The 2001-2009 Nationwide Inpatient Sample was used to identify total hip and knee arthroplasties using International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, procedure codes. The relative incidence of PJI ranged between 2.0% and 2.4% of total hip arthroplasties and total knee arthroplasties and increased over time. The mean cost to treat hip PJIs was $5965 greater than the mean cost for knee PJIs. The annual cost of infected revisions to US hospitals increased from $320 million to $566 million during the study period and was projected to exceed $1.62 billion by 2020. As the demand for joint arthroplasty is expected to increase substantially over the coming decade, so too will the economic burden of prosthetic infections.
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