Discharge dispositions, complications, and costs of hospitalization in spinal cord tumor surgery: Analysis of data from the United States Nationwide Inpatient Sample, 2003-2010: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 125-141

  Sharma, Mayur ^a   Sonig, Ashish ^a   Ambekar, Sudheer ^a   Nanda, Anil ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Hospitalization cost; Nationwide Inpatient Sample; Oncology; Spinal cord tumor; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; ICD-9-CM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF CARE; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PATIENT DISCHARGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84893299007     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2013.9.SPINE13274     Document Type: Article

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