Annual Hospital Volume and Success of Digital Replantation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Digital replantation attempt and success rates have been declining in the United States. Regionalization of digit replantation has been proposed as a solution to improve both attempt and success rates of these procedures. There is limited information about which criteria could establish a hospital as a center specialized for digit replantation. The authors analyzed hospital replantation volume and patient factors associated with successful thumb/finger replantation.

Methods

A retrospective study using data from the 2008 to 2012 State Inpatient Databases of the Health Care Cost and Utilization Project from five states (New York, California, North Carolina, Utah, and Florida) was performed. The generalized estimating equation method was used to examine the associati

SUBMITTER: Brown M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5327819 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature