Telehealth Visits After Shoulder Surgery: Higher Patient Satisfaction and Lower Costs.

Introduction: Studies comparing the cost of in-person and virtual care are lacking. The goal of this study was threefold (1) to compare the cost of telemedicine visits with in-person clinic visits after common shoulder surgeries, (2) to measure the safety, and (3) to evaluate patient experience with telemedicine visits.

Methods: The In-Person Visit cohort (N = 25) and the telemedicine cohort (Virtual Visit cohort, N = 24) were selected from patients undergoing routine follow-up of common shoulder procedures.

Surgical time and outcomes of stemmed versus stemless total shoulder arthroplasty.

Background: Stemless total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA) was approved for use in the United States in 2015, and there remains a paucity of data on its performance in this market. Decreased operative time without compromise of clinical outcomes is a theoretical advantage of stemless TSA, but no studies have evaluated this in a comparative study to date. Herein, the operative times and clinical outcomes of stemless vs.