Complications after surgery for lumbar stenosis in a veteran population

Spine

Volumn 38, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 1695-1702

  Deyo, Richard A ^a,b   Hickam, David ^b,c   Duckart, Jonathan P ^c   Piedra, Mark ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Portland Center for the Study of Chronic   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Lumbar fusion; Lumbar stenosis; Patient safety; Postoperative mortality; Prediction rule; Receiver operating characteristic (ROC); Risk prediction; Spinal stenosis; Surgical complications

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; INSULIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMA; COMORBIDITY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; LUMBAR SPINAL STENOSIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; WOUND COMPLICATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPINAL FUSION; SPINAL STENOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VETERANS;

EID: 84888333685     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31829f65c1     Document Type: Article

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