Estimating patient-specific mortality after joint replacement: algorithm development and validation using national audit datasets

Purpose: Individuals considering joint replacement need to be able to understand the potential risks of surgery in order to make informed choices about their treatment. Although the surgical experience is multifaceted, involving many competing risks and benefits, the outcome of death is a firm endpoint that is of relevance to all patients, although rare in the setting of joint arthroplasty. We aimed to use national datasets to build predictive...