Survival and cost comparison of kyphoplasty and percutaneous vertebroplasty using german claims data

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Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 318-326

  Lange, Ansgar ^a   Kasperk, Christian ^b   Alvares, Luisa ^c   Sauermann, Sven ^d   Braun, Sebastian ^e  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c Spine and Biologics Medtronic International ^*  (Switzerland)

^d Medtronic GmbH   (Germany)

^e Herescon Gmbh   (Germany)

Author keywords

costs; epidemiology; fracture; kyphoplasty; minimally invasive; mortality; osteoporosis; OVCF; survival; vertebroplasty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KYPHOPLASTY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OSTEOPOROTIC VERTEBRAL COMPRESSION FRACTURE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; VERY ELDERLY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; FACTUAL DATABASE; FRACTURES, COMPRESSION; SPINAL FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FRACTURES, COMPRESSION; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; KYPHOPLASTY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPINAL FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBROPLASTY;

EID: 84896733769     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0000000000000135     Document Type: Article

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