Although patients found to have an intraoperative fracture had longer inpatient hospitalizations, their rates of both discharge to SNF/rehab and of 90-day readmission failed to reach statistical significance in our limited cohort.
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Intraoperative fractures in shoulder arthroplasty: risk factors and outcomes.
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Preliminarily, these findings may offer reassurance to patients when counseling regarding the risks of surgery but do merit further investigation in larger sample sizes as the trend toward significance for 90-day readmission may reflect an actual clinical reality.
While the rates of 90-day readmission and discharge to SNF/rehab were higher in the fracture cohort, these values did not reach statistical significance.