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01-12-2017 | CORR Insights
CORR Insights®: Perioperative Risk Adjustment for Total Shoulder Arthroplasty: Are Simple Clinically Driven Models Sufficient?
Author:
Chris Peach, MBBS, FRCS (Tr & Orth) MD
Published in:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Issue 12/2017
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Excerpt
With increasing pressure on healthcare budgets around the globe, it is vital for healthcare providers to demonstrate that their procedures deliver value [
8]. If we want to improve the value of healthcare, we will need to institute substantial cost-saving measures [
3]. Adverse events in hospitals are estimated to affect one in 10 patients [
2], and the economic impact of events like infections, adverse-drug events, and surgical complications is substantial. If we could reduce their frequency, cost savings would likely follow. …