Value-based neurosurgery: The example of microvascular decompression surgery

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 462-472

  McLaughlin, Nancy ^a   Buxey, Farzad ^a   Chaw, Karen ^a   Martin, Neil A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Complication; Episode of care; Length of stay; Operating room; Outcome; Readmission; Value

Indexed keywords

GELATIN SPONGE; STEROID; TISSUE ADHESIVE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CHEMICAL MENINGITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PATHWAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE DISORDER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LIQUORRHEA; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENINGITIS; MICROVASCULAR DECOMPRESSION; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STEROID THERAPY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TRANSIENT FACIAL WEAKNESS; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATA COLLECTION; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MICROVASCULAR DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA;

EID: 84893256918     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2013.9.JNS13663     Document Type: Article

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