Stop Guessing on Same-Day Discharge: The Ultimate Guide to Patient Selection

How to utilize the Outpatient Arthroplasty Risk Assessment Score to ensure only the healthiest patients skip the overnight hospital stay.

Over the past decade and a half, there has been increasing interest in performing primary hip and knee replacement in the outpatient setting. Rapid recovery protocols have helped with a natural evolution of this procedure from the inpatient to the outpatient setting.

Interest in outpatient arthroplasty has also been fueled by financial considerations, including the ability to control costs within the episode of care, the potential for surgeon ownership in ambulatory surgery centers, and the ability for a surgeon to control his or her operating room and surgical care environment more easily in an ambulatory surgery center.