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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 20.
Published in final edited form as: Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2012 Jan 11;64(6):10.1002/acr.21611. doi: 10.1002/acr.21611

Table 1.

Count of patients by type of hospital volume and distance from patient to nearest High Volume Hospital

Number and proportion of TKR patients Median Travel distance (miles) (TKR patients discharged from LVH where no nearer high-volume hospital)
All TKR patients (000) * TKR patients discharged from LVH …where no nearer high-volume hospital To LVH of service To nearest high volume hospital Additional distance
US 183.2 17,484 9.5% 11,550 66.1% 4.2 23.6 14.3
 Urban Area 98.3 6,843 7.0% 3,313 48.4% 2.7 7.5 3.8
 Urban Cluster 26.7 3,867 14.5% 3,219 83.2% 1.9 29.3 24.4
 Rural 58.2 6,774 11.6% 5,018 74.1% 10.9 31.1 17.8
STATE
 FL 13.1 1,062 8.1% 571 53.8% 3.7 12.9 7.8
 TX 12.3 1,476 12.0% 964 65.3% 5.3 27.9 15.9
 CA 10.0 1,855 18.5% 1,045 56.3% 5.4 7.5 1.1
 PA 9.7 722 7.5% 435 60.2% 3.0 15.7 8.8
 OH 9.1 578 6.3% 359 62.1% 4.1 15.9 8.9
 MI 8.5 489 5.8% 326 66.7% 4.4 19.3 11.2
 IL 8.4 566 6.7% 247 43.6% 3.0 20.8 13.8
 NY 8.2 804 9.8% 524 65.2% 3.7 16.8 8.2
 AZ 3.0 291 9.7% 161 55.3% 3.3 42.2 38.3
 CO 2.1 201 9.7% 167 83.1% 4.1 46.3 33.6
 Other large TKR states§ 69.8 6755 9.7% 4,701 69.6% 7.9 22.5 8.7
 MT 1.0 128 12.9% 128 89.1% 2.8 65.5 60.9
 ND 1.0 82 8.5% 82 54.9% 20.8 98.7 88.7
 SD 1.2 73 6.3% 36 49.4% 6.3 50.3 44.9
 NV 0.9 162 17.7% 162 77.2% 2.4 51.0 44.0
 NM 0.6 35 5.6% 13 37.1% 6.3 84.2 64.8
 WY 0.4 90 24.5% 63 70.0% 1.8 104.6 76.2
 Other small TKR states** 24.0 2,115 8.8% 1,653 78.1% 7.6 21.5 11.5
*

States sorted by number of TKR performed.

States where proportion of LVH discharges was > 10% emboldened and proportion of patients that did not drive-by a high volume hospital > 70% emboldened.

States where nearest high volume hospital median travel distance or the median additional travel distance is greater than 50 miles is emboldened.

§

Other large TKR states: IN, MO, GA, VA, TN, MN, IA, MD, WA, AL, NJ, SC, MA, KS, KY, LA, OK, AR, NE, MS

**

Other small TKR states: CT, UT, OR, WV, NC, WI, ME, ID, NH, DE, RI, VT, DC