Effect of smoking on the perioperative outcomes of patients who undergo elective spine surgery

Spine

Volumn 38, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 1294-1302

  Seicean, Andreea ^a   Seicean, Sinziana ^b,c   Alan, Nima ^a   Schiltz, Nicholas K ^a   Rosenbaum, Benjamin P ^e   Jones, Paul K ^a   Neuhauser, Duncan ^a   Kattan, Michael W ^d   Weil, Robert J ^e,f  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^c Heart and Vascular Institute   (United States)

^d Department of Quantitative Health Sciences ^*  (United States)

^e NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

cigarette smoking; health services research; mortality; Outcomes; spine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ELECTIVE SPINE SURGERY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LAMINECTOMY; LAMINOTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OPERATING ROOM; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SMOKING; SPINE FUSION; SPINE SURGERY; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SPINAL FUSION; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84879945522     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31828e2747     Document Type: Article

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