A decade's experience in lumbar spine surgery in Belgium: Sickness fund beneficiaries, 2000-2009

European Spine Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2693-2703

  Du Bois, Marc ^a   Szpalski, Marek ^b   Donceel, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b IRIS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Length of stay; Lumbar surgery rates; Regional variations; Reoperations; Return to work; Trends

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LEAVE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETURN TO WORK; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT DURATION;

BELGIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84875754048     PISSN: 09406719     EISSN: 14320932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-012-2381-1     Document Type: Article

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