Patient Factors Are Associated With Poor Short-term Outcomes After Posterior Fusion for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 473, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 286-294

  Basques, Bryce A ^a   Bohl, Daniel D ^a   Golinvaux, Nicholas S ^a   Smith, Brian G ^a   Grauer, Jonathan N ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CATHETER INFECTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; COMA; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INTUBATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; PATIENT RISK; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PNEUMONIA; POSTERIOR SPINE FUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION; RESUSCITATION; SEIZURE; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; FACTUAL DATABASE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SCOLIOSIS; SPINE FUSION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT READMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL FUSION; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84922076213     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-014-3911-4     Document Type: Article

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