Association of Intraoperative Blood Transfusions on Postoperative Complications, 30-Day Readmission Rates, and 1-Year Patient-Reported Outcomes

Spine

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 610-615

  Elsamadicy, Aladine A ^a   Adogwa, Owoicho ^b   Vuong, Victoria D ^b   Mehta, Ankit I ^c   Vasquez, Raul A ^d   Cheng, Joseph ^e   Bagley, Carlos A ^f   Karikari, Isaac O ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

30 day readmission; allogeneic; complications; hospital readmission; patient reported outcomes; red blood cell transfusions; spine surgery

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEMATOMA; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OPERATION DURATION; OSWESTRY DISABILITY INDEX; PATIENT-REPORTED OUTCOME; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT FORM 36; SMOKING; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL INFECTION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; LENGTH OF STAY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPINE; SPINE FUSION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGERY;

ADULT; AGED; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; ELECTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT READMISSION; PATIENT REPORTED OUTCOME MEASURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SPINAL FUSION; SPINE;

EID: 84979073011     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0000000000001803     Document Type: Article

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