Impact of nonoperative treatment, vertebroplasty, and kyphoplasty on survival and morbidity after vertebral compression fracture in the medicare population

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 95, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 1729-1736

  Chen, Andrew T ^a   Cohen, David B ^a   Skolasky, Richard L ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DECUBITUS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DYING; FEMALE; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KYPHOPLASTY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICARE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PNEUMONIA; POPULATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE FRACTURE; SURVIVAL RATE; VERTEBRAL COMPRESSION FRACTURE; VERY ELDERLY; ECONOMICS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LENGTH OF STAY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REOPERATION; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FRACTURES, COMPRESSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPINAL FRACTURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED; FEMALE; FRACTURES, COMPRESSION; HOSPITAL CHARGES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; KYPHOPLASTY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICARE; PATIENT DISCHARGE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REOPERATION; SPINAL FRACTURES; UNITED STATES; VERTEBROPLASTY;

EID: 84891704656     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: 15351386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.K.01649     Document Type: Article

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