Thirty-day readmissions after elective spine surgery for degenerative conditions among US Medicare beneficiaries

Spine Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 902-911

  Wang, Marjorie C ^a   Shivakoti, Mikesh ^a   Sparapani, Rodney A ^a   Guo, Changbin ^b   Laud, Purushottam W ^a   Nattinger, Ann B ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b SAS INSTITUTE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical spine surgery; Degenerative spine disorders; Lumbar spine surgery; Predictors of readmission; Readmission

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; CERVICAL MYELOPATHY; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION SOFTWARE; CODING; CODING ALGORITHM; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LACERATION; LUMBAR SPINE; LUMBAR SPINE SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REHABILITATION CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINE FUSION; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL PATIENT; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MEDICARE PART A; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT READMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL DISEASES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870296222     PISSN: 15299430     EISSN: 18781632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spinee.2012.09.051     Document Type: Article

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