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Table 4 Revisions causes with 10 years follow up. Hazard Ratios with confidence intervals for different hospital volumes, adjusted for sex, age category, year of surgery and nation

From: Hospital volume and the risk of revision in Oxford unicompartmental knee arthroplasty in the Nordic countries -an observational study of 14,496 cases

Annual hospital volume group

Number of procedures

Number of revisions

Revision causes with adjusted Hazard Ratios (95% confidence interval)

Infection

Loosening/Wear

Instability/Dislocation

Unexplained pain

Other reasons

Unknown reasons

  

1519

n = 57

n = 545

n = 104

n = 273

n = 498

n = 42

≤11

3528

465

1.0 (ref)

1.0 (ref)

1.0 (ref)

1.0 (ref)

1.0 (ref)

1.0 (ref)

12-23

3759

420

1.02 (0.49-2.16)

1.04 (0.83-1.29)

1.66 (1.00-2.76)

0.54 (0.39-0.75)

0.72 (0.57-0.91)

1.90 (0.83-4.39)

24-43

3533

292

0.92 (0.41-2.02)

0.80 (0.61-1.04)

1.12 (0.61-2.05)

0.64 (0.46-0.89)

0.80 (0.62-1.04)

1.12 (0.44-2.86)

≥44

3676

342

1.20 (0.54-2.64)

0.93 (0.73-1.19)

1.15 (0.58-2.28)

0.56 (0.39-0.80)

0.77 (0.60-0.99)

0.47 (0.14-1.51)

Number of revisions in each volume group:

≤11

  

13

157

23

96

168

8

12-23

  

15

166

43

60

118

18

24-43

  

13

93

21

61

93

11

≥44

  

16

129

17

56

119

5

  1. n numbers
  2. ref reference