Population-based trends in volumes and rates of ambulatory lumbar spine surgery

Spine

Volumn 31, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 1957-1963

  Gray, Darryl T ^a,b   Deyo, Richard A ^b   Kreuter, William ^b   Mirza, Sohail K ^c   Heagerty, Patrick J ^b   Comstock, Bryan A ^b   Chan, Leighton ^b  

^a AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambulatory surgery; Discectomy; Fusion; Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP); Lumbar spine surgery; Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS); Outpatient surgery; Rate trends; State Ambulatory Surgery Database (SASD); State Inpatient Database (SID)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULATORY SURGERY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR SPINE; OUTPATIENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE FUSION; SPINE SURGERY;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISKECTOMY; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; ORTHOPEDICS; SPINAL FUSION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33748063609     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000229148.63418.c1     Document Type: Article

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