Table III.
Comparison of adverse outcomes by year of index TSA surgery
| All patients |
Year of index TSA surgery |
P value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-2010 |
2011-2014 |
2015-2018 |
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| N = 23,753 (%) | n = 1116 (%) | n = 5920 (%) | n = 16,717 (%) | ||
| Any complication | 2.48 | 2.78 | 2.77 | 2.36 | .172 |
| Death | 0.19 | 0.27 | 0.20 | 0.17 | .725 |
| Cardiac complications | 0.31 | 0.18 | 0.25 | 0.34 | .418 |
| Renal complications | 0.13 | 0.00 | 0.17 | 0.13 | .362 |
| Respiratory complications | 0.66 | 0.81 | 0.63 | 0.66 | .789 |
| Deep vein thrombosis | 0.36 | 0.18 | 0.34 | 0.38 | .514 |
| Stroke/cerebrovascular accident | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.14 | 0.07 | .395 |
| Sepsis | 0.16 | 5.17 | 0.17 | 0.12 | .003∗ |
| Wound infection | 0.43 | 0.18 | 0.47 | 0.42 | .384 |
| Wound dehiscence | 0.06 | 0.09 | 0.08 | 0.05 | .677 |
| Urinary tract infection | 0.69 | 1.16 | 0.86 | 0.60 | .001∗ |
| Perioperative blood transfusion | 2.39 | 3.05 | 4.80 | 1.50 | .001∗ |
| Non-home discharge | 10.01 | N/A | 11.74 | 9.38 | .001∗ |
TSA, total shoulder arthroplasty; N/A, not available.
Readmission data were available for 22,614 (95.2%) patients.
∗
Significance defined as P < .0038 after Bonferroni correction; significant values are in bold.