Impact of Racial Disparities on All-Cause Mortality in Patients With Tumors of the Spinal Cord or Spinal Meninges: A Propensity-Score Analysis
Elsamadicy AA, Freedman I, Koo AB, David WB, Reeves BC, Hengartner A, Pennington Z, Laurans M, Kolb L, Shin JH, Sciubba D. Impact of Racial Disparities on All-Cause Mortality in Patients With Tumors of the Spinal Cord or Spinal Meninges: A Propensity-Score Analysis. Global Spine Journal 2021, 13: 1365-1373. PMID: 34318727, PMCID: PMC10416582, DOI: 10.1177/21925682211033827.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSpinal cordCause mortalitySpinal meningesNonmalignant tumorsCox proportional hazards regression analysisProportional hazards regression analysisIntradural spine tumorsReceipt of RTOutcomes of patientsRetrospective cohort studyEnd Results registryKaplan-Meier methodOverall survival estimatesSpinal cord tumorsAssociation of survivalLog-rank testAfrican American patientsPopulation-based estimatesPropensity score analysisPropensity-score matchingCohort studyCord tumorsSpine tumorsWhite patientsAnalysis age