Three Best Practices for Knee Replacement (Biloine Young @ OTW)
Manage patient expectations.
Multidisciplinary teams for complex patients.
Dedicated nurses in the OR.
When orthopedic surgical teams from five of the elite healthcare systems of the country shared best practices for knee replacement—and then faced pushback on their recommendations—it made medical news.
Or it should have.
Called the High Value Healthcare Collaborative, the group was composed of orthopedic surgical teams from the Cleveland Clinic, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Denver Health, Intermountain Healthcare, and t...