Complications and mortality in cervical spine surgery: Racial differences

Spine

Volumn 39, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 1506-1512

  Skolasky, Richard L ^a   Thorpe, Roland J ^b   Wegener, Stephen T ^a   Riley, Lee H ^a  

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

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

anterior cervical spine surgery; complications; disparity; mortality

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL INJURY; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGED; ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYING; DYSPHAGIA; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEART DISEASE; HEMATOMA; HISPANIC; HOARSENESS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCOME; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LAMINECTOMY; LIQUORRHEA; LUNG COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; POSTERIOR SPINE FUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEX; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; CERVICAL SPINE; ETHNOLOGY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGERY;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PATIENT DISCHARGE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84906322754     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0000000000000429     Document Type: Article

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