Population
3438 patients who underwent elective hip or knee arthroplasty between January 1995 and March 2001. Excluded…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
In-hospital/postoperative
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ASA class III associated with higher arthroplasty mortality; supports risk stratification yet leaves causal interventions untested.
In patients undergoing elective hip or knee arthroplasty, a higher ASA score (specifically class III) is significantly associated with an increased risk of postoperative death.
Rauh et al. (2004) studied this question.
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