Total Hip Replacement Quality Measures

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Total Hip Replacement (THR) Quality Measures

Average length of stay for total hip replacement

According to the most recent national data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project's (HCUP) Nationwide Inpatient Sample from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the average length of stay (ALOS) for total hip replacement was 5.2 days.

In 2006, St. Mary's Hospital Medical Center's average length of stay (ALOS) for total hip replacement was 3.82 days, which was better than the ALOS for total hip replacement in the most recent HCUP data.