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The outcome measures included major complications, minor complications, mortality, inpatient hospital charges, and length of stay (LOS). Major complications were defined as myocardial infarction, cardiac arrest, stroke, deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, pneumonia, postoperative shock, unplanned ventilation, deep surgical site infection, wound dehiscence, infected postoperative seroma, hospital acquired urinary tract infection, and retained surgical item. Minor complications included phlebitis and thrombophlebitis, postprocedural emphysema, minor surgical site infection, peripheral nerve complication, and intraoperative hemorrhage. Mortality data were extracted from the database using the Uniform Bill patient disposition. Complications were analyzed using univariate and multivariate logistic regression models, whereas mean costs and LOS were compared using the Kruskal\u2013Wallis H-test. Major complications occurred in 3.8% of the patients in the arthroscopy cohort and 5.4% of the patients in the arthrotomy cohort (p\u2009=\u20090.20). Too few patients in our sample died to report based on National (Nationwide) Impatient Sample (NIS) minimum reporting standards. Rates of minor complications were similar for the arthroscopy and arthrotomy cohorts (12.5 vs. 13.9%; p\u2009=\u20090.48). Multivariate analysis did not reveal any greater risk of minor or major complication between the two procedures. Inpatient hospital cost was similar for arthroscopy (\n            \n          \u2009=\u2009$15,917; standard deviation [SD]\u2009=\u200914,424) and arthrotomy (\n            \n          \u2009=\u2009$16,020; SD\u2009=\u200918,665; p\u2009=\u20090.42). LOS was also similar for both arthrotomy (6.78 days, SD\u2009=\u20096.75) and arthroscopy (6.24 days, SD\u2009=\u20095.95; p\u2009=\u20090.23). Patients undergoing arthroscopic treatment of septic arthritis of the knee showed no difference in relative risk of perioperative complications, LOS, or hospital cost compared with patients who underwent open arthrotomy.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1055\/s-0039-1693450","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,7,9]],"date-time":"2019-07-09T18:51:20Z","timestamp":1562698280000},"page":"074-079","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":21,"title":["In-Hospital Complications following Arthrotomy versus Arthroscopy for Septic Knee Arthritis: A Cohort-Matched Comparison"],"prefix":"10.1055","volume":"34","author":[{"given":"Yehuda E.","family":"Kerbel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Alexander M.","family":"Lieber","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Gregory J.","family":"Kirchner","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Natalie N.","family":"Stump","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"John P.","family":"Prodromo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Philip M.","family":"Petrucelli","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mitesh P.","family":"Shah","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shyam","family":"Brahmabhatt","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Rothman Orthopedic Institute, Abington\u2013Jefferson Health, Abington, Pennsylvania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"194","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,7,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"846","DOI":"10.1016\/S0140-6736(09)61595-6","article-title":"Bacterial septic arthritis in adults","volume":"375","author":"C J Mathews","year":"2010","journal-title":"Lancet"},{"issue":"03","key":"ref2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"423","DOI":"10.1017\/S0950268800059070","article-title":"An 18\u2009year clinical review of septic arthritis from tropical Australia","volume":"117","author":"D S Morgan","year":"1996","journal-title":"Epidemiol Infect"},{"issue":"10","key":"ref3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1125","DOI":"10.1001\/archinte.1979.03630470037014","article-title":"Infectious arthritis","volume":"139","author":"J T Sharp","year":"1979","journal-title":"Arch Intern Med"},{"issue":"04","key":"ref4","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"527","DOI":"10.1128\/CMR.15.4.527-544.2002","article-title":"Acute septic arthritis","volume":"15","author":"M E Shirtliff","year":"2002","journal-title":"Clin Microbiol Rev"},{"issue":"08","key":"ref5","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"e0182577","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pone.0182577","article-title":"The burden of septic arthritis on the U.S. inpatient care: A national study","volume":"12","author":"J A Singh","year":"2017","journal-title":"PLoS One"},{"issue":"12","key":"ref6","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1819","DOI":"10.1002\/art.1780381215","article-title":"Risk factors for septic arthritis in patients with joint disease. 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