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Table 6 Days of opioid use following TKA and UKA

From: Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: A PearlDiver study evaluating complications rates, opioid use and utilization in the Medicare population

 

UKA

TKA

Number of patients

5,605 (71.79% of pts who underwent UKA)

114,583 (76.04% of pts who underwent TKA)

Number of days filled:

 Mean

144.7

186.1

 Standard deviation

408.02

449.63

p-value

 < 0.0001

 95% CI

(52.3944, 30.4056)