Table 4.
Outcomes independently associated with low albumin following primary total hip (THA) and knee (TKA) arthroplasty after application of logistic regression model in matched cohorts.
| Patients with Low Albumin | Logistic Regression – Matched Cohort |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary THA |
Primary TKA |
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| OR | 95% CI | P | OR | 95% CI | P | |||
| Death | 21.19 | 2.85 | 157.66 | 0.003 | 2.81 | 1.01 | 7.80 | 0.048 |
| Serious morbidity | 1.51 | 1.30 | 1.75 | <.001 | 1.25 | 1.09 | 1.43 | 0.001 |
| Long Operation Time | 1.01 | 0.86 | 1.18 | 0.906 | 1.05 | 0.92 | 1.19 | 0.458 |
| Length of Stay >5 days | 2.03 | 1.70 | 2.43 | <.001 | 1.53 | 1.32 | 1.79 | <.001 |
| Reoperation | 1.41 | 1.03 | 1.92 | 0.031 | 1.30 | 0.92 | 1.84 | 0.136 |
| Readmission | 1.54 | 1.21 | 1.95 | <.001 | 1.45 | 1.19 | 1.78 | <.001 |
| Discharge to Facility | 1.42 | 1.26 | 1.60 | <.001 | 1.25 | 1.14 | 1.36 | <.001 |