The Potential Effects of Imposing a Body Mass Index Threshold on Patient-Reported Outcomes after Total Knee Arthroplasty

This study evaluated use of BMI-cutoffs to offering TKA in avoiding: 1) 90-day readmission; 2) one-year mortality; and 3) failure to achieve clinically important one-year PROMS improvement(MCID).

Source: The Journal of Arthroplasty - September 6, 2020 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Hiba K. Anis, Ahmed K. Emara, Alison K. Klika, Wael K. Barsoum, Michael R. Bloomfield, Peter J. Brooks, Carlos A. Higuera, Atul F. Kamath, Viktor E. Krebs, Nathan W. Mesko, Trevor G. Murray, George F. Muschler, Robert J. Nickodem, Preetesh D. Patel, Jonat Source Type: research