Abstracts tagged "epidemiologic methods and utilization review"

Abstract Number: 2126 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2013
Time Trends In Total Ankle Arthroplasty: A Study Of The U.S. National Inpatient Sample
Jasvinder A. Singh^1,2 and Rekha Ramachandaran³, ¹Rheumatology, Birmingham VA, Birmingham, AL, ²Department of Medicine, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, ³University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: To assess the time-trends in utilization, clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients undergoing total ankle arthroplasty (TAA) in the U.S. Methods: We used the…