Remote monitoring may reduce readmissions after total joint arthroplasty study finds

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania saw a 4-fold decline in the rate of patients who returned to the hospital after discharge from total hip arthroplasty (THA) or total knee arthroplasty (TKA) if the patients were enrolled in a program that used wearable step counters and conversational text messaging to keep tabs on recovery, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.