Infection risk for primary and revision instrumented lumbar spine fusion in the Medicare population: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 342-347

  Kurtz, Steven M ^a   Lau, Edmund ^a   Ong, Kevin L ^a   Carreon, Leah ^b   Watson, Heather ^a   Albert, Todd ^a   Glassman, Steven ^b  

^a EXPONENT INC   (United States)

^b NORTON LEATHERMAN SPINE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Infection; Lumbar fusion; Medicare

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; ICD-9-CM; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; OBESITY; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL STATUS; SPINE FUSION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURVIVAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MEDICARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; SPINAL FUSION; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84868357752     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2012.7.SPINE12203     Document Type: Article

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