Interspinous spacers compared with decompression or fusion for lumbar stenosis: Complications and repeat operations in the medicare population

Spine

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 865-872

  Deyo, Richard A ^a,b,c   Martin, Brook I ^d,e   Ching, Alex ^f   Tosteson, Anna N A ^e   Jarvik, Jeffrey G ^g   Kreuter, William ^h   Mirza, Sohail K ^d,e  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^c Center for Research in Occupational and Environmental   (United States)

^d DARTMOUTH INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH POLICY AND CLINICAL PRACTICE   (United States)

^e DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

complications; fusion surgery; hospital costs; interspinous process spacer; lumbar stenosis ,reoperations; Medicare claims; readmissions; revision surgery; spinal stenosis; X stop

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; COST OF ILLNESS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERSPINOUS IMPLANT; LAMINECTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SEX; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINAL SPACER; SPINE FUSION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; WOUND COMPLICATION; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; ECONOMICS; MORTALITY; PROCEDURES; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; SPINAL STENOSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICARE; PATIENT READMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION; SPINAL STENOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84876981113     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31828631b8     Document Type: Review

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