A study evaluates hip replacement patient outcomes to determine whether nonelective total hip arthroplasty (THA) creates an elevated infection risk when compared to elective THA cases. The resulting paper titled “Surgical Site Infection and Periprosthetic Joint Infection in Nonelective versus Elective Total Hip Arthroplasty,” appears in the June 15, 2025, edition of the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
A research team from the Leni & Peter W. May Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York—comprised of Uma Balachandran, B.A., Dr. Calin S. Moucha, Dr. Jashvant Poeran, and senior author Dr. Brett L. Hayden—analyzed Medicare inpatient data from 2017 to 2020 to compare infection outcomes between nonelective and elective total hip arthroplasty procedures.
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