Living Alone is Predictive of Non-home Discharge Following Elective Total Hip Arthroplasty: a Matched-pairs Cohort Analysis

University of Virginia

Status: Completed

Conditions: Perioperative/Postoperative Complications; Arthropathy of Hip

Treatments: Behavioral: home support, hiving alone; Behavioral: home support, living with others

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06462885

HSRZOKZZ3

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this observational study is to assess the effect of living alone on total hip arthroplasty thirty-day outcomes. The main questions it aims to answer are:

Is living alone associated with discharge disposition (home versus non-home)? Is living alone associated with greater incidences of secondary adverse events?

Participants will be sampled from the 2021 American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program

Enrollment: 5,677 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Elective, non-emergent cases
• Living alone
• Living with others

Exclusion criteria

• Fracture in surgical diagnosis
• Hospital admission >1 day preoperatively
• End-stage renal disease (preoperative)
• Metastatic disease (preoperative)
• Sepsis (preoperative)
• Bleeding diathesis (preoperative)
• American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status Classification 5

Trial design

5,677 participants in 2 patient groups

Living alone

Description:

1,624 patients undergoing elective total hip arthroplasty who were living alone at the time of admission.

Treatment:

Behavioral: home support, hiving alone

Living with others

Description:

1,624 patients undergoing elective total hip arthroplasty who were living with others at the time of admission.

Treatment:

Behavioral: home support, living with others