Risk factors for immediate postoperative complications and mortality following spine surgery: A study of 3475 patients from the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 93, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 1577-1582

  Schoenfeld, Andrew J ^a   Ochoa, Leah M ^a   Bader, Julia O ^b   Belmont, Philip J ^a  

^a Paul L Foster School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMORBIDITY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OPERATION DURATION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 80052884584     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: 15351386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.J.01048     Document Type: Article

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