Risk factors for 30-day unplanned readmission and major perioperative complications after spine fusion surgery in adults a review of the national surgical quality improvement program database

Spine

Volumn 41, Issue 19, 2016, Pages 1523-1534

  Su, Alvin W ^a,b   Habermann, Elizabeth B ^a,c   Thomsen, Kristine M ^c   Milbrandt, Todd A ^a   Nassr, Ahmad ^a   Noelle Larson, A ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Department of Health Sciences Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult spine fusion; Bundled payment; Complications; National Surgical Quality Improvement Program; Outcome; Readmissions; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CERVICAL SPINE DISLOCATION; CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PNEUMONIA; POSTERIOR SPINE FUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUNISHMENT; REIMBURSEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEROMA; SOLITARY FIBROUS TUMOR; SPINAL HEMATOMA; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE FUSION; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; WOUND DEHISCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT READMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL FUSION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84960458731     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0000000000001558     Document Type: Article

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