MAINTAINING OUTCOMES FOR TOTAL HIP-ARTHROPLASTY - THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE - OVERVIEW

Developing and maintaining outcomes for total hip arthroplasty, result ing in meaningful and usable data, presents many challenges for today' s clinician, Outcomes data collected must show patients' clinical, fun ctional, and overall quality of life status, Data also must be appropr iate to illustrate efficiency, effectiveness, and value of medical int erventions provided to payers, Previous and current measures of assess ing outcomes of total hip arthroplasty are presented, evaluated, and d iscussed. Recommended standards for the future, including the identifi cation of specific data needed such as demographics, Short Form-36, pa tient satisfaction, length of stay, infection rate, return to surgery, and revision rates are introduced, leading to an outcomes based sugge sted standard of care for total hip arthroplasty with application to p atients, providers, and payers.