Knee Replacement Revision is Off the Charts for Black Patients
Researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) have examined racial disparities separately for aseptic and septic revision total knee replacement using data from three large states. In their study published July 21 in
JAMA Network Open, they found that Black patients had a 39% higher risk of aseptic revision and an 11% higher risk of septic revision than white patients.
“As we predicted, the risk factors were very different for patients needing aseptic versus septic revision. But we were totally surprised to find Black race was one of the only risk factors associated with aseptic revision and that this disparity was so much higher for patients treated at high-volume hospitals.”