Assessment for Perioperative Hyperglycemia Prior to Total Joint Replacement in Patients With and Without Diabetes

JAMA Netw Open. 2019 Sep 4;2(9):e1910589. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.10589.

Lindsey A MacFarlane^{1

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3}, Yinzhu Jin⁴, Patricia D Franklin⁵, Joyce Lii⁴, Jeffrey N Katz^{1

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3}, Seoyoung C Kim^{2

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4}

¹ Orthopedic and Arthritis Center for Outcomes Research, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁵ Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.

Abstract

This cohort study examines rates of screening for hyperglycemia before total joint replacement among Medicare enrollees with and without diabetes.