Readmission rates after decompression surgery in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis among medicare beneficiaries

Spine

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 591-596

  Modhia, Urvij ^a   Takemoto, Steven ^a   Braid Forbes, Mary Jo ^b   Weber, Michael ^a   Berven, Sigurd H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Braid Forbes Health Research   (United States)

Author keywords

lumbar; Medicare claims; readmission and reoperation rates; spinal fusion; spinal stenosis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICARE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINE FUSION; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANALGESICS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INJECTIONS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PATIENT READMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION; SPINAL STENOSIS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876408676     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31828628f5     Document Type: Article

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