Complications, reoperation rates, and health-care cost following surgical treatment of lumbar spondylolisthesis

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 95, Issue 21, 2013, Pages

  Lad, Shivanand P ^a   Babu, Ranjith ^a   Baker, Abdul A ^b   Ugiliweneza, Beatrice ^b   Kong, Maiying ^c   Bagley, Carlos A ^a   Gottfried, Oren N ^a   Isaacs, Robert E ^a   Patil, Chirag G ^d   Boakye, Maxwell ^e  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^d CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTHRODESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; REOPERATION; SPINE SURGERY; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADULT; ECONOMICS; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MIDDLE AGED; SPINE FUSION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; SPINAL FUSION; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84891592650     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: 15351386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.L.00730     Document Type: Article

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