Clinical rehabilitation
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Clinical rehabilitation · Feb 2020
The development and testing of the Predictor of Appropriate Discharge Destination among patients undergoing elective total knee or hip joint arthroplasty.
The aim of this study was to develop and test a tool, the Predictor of Appropriate Discharge Destination (PADD), used postoperative day zero by healthcare professionals to identify whether patients undergoing elective total knee arthroplasty or total hip arthroplasty should go directly home or to extended rehabilitation. A secondary objective was to examine the difference in readmissions pre and post use of the PADD. ⋯ The PADD has good predictive validity in relation to appropriate discharge destination for patients undergoing a total knee or hip arthroplasty.