Jeremy A Dubin, Sandeep S Bains, Daniel Hameed, Rubén Monárrez, Ruby Gilmor, Zhongming Chen, James Nace, Ronald E Delanois
BACKGROUND: Vulnerable populations, including patients from a lower socioeconomic status, are at an increased risk for infection, revision surgery, mortality, and complications after total joint arthroplasty (TJA). An effective metric to quantify and compare these populations has not yet been established in the literature. The Area Deprivation Index (ADI) provides a composite area-based indicator of socioeconomic disadvantage consisting of 17 U.S. Census indicators, based on education, employment, housing quality, and poverty...
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