National in-hospital morbidity and mortality trends after lumbar fusion surgery between 1998 and 2008

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series B

Volumn 94 B, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 359-364

  Pumberger, M ^a   Chiu, Y L ^a,b   Ma, Y ^a   Girardi, F P ^a   Mazumdar, M ^a,b   Memtsoudis, S G ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTERIOR LUMBAR FUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SPINE FUSION; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SPINAL FUSION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84863258462     PISSN: 0301620X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1302/0301-620X.94B3.27825     Document Type: Article

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