Hospital Frailty Risk Score and Healthcare Resource Utilization After Surgery for Primary Spinal Intradural/Cord Tumors
Elsamadicy AA, Koo AB, Reeves BC, Pennington Z, Sarkozy M, Hersh A, Havlik J, Sherman JJZ, Goodwin CR, Kolb L, Laurans M, Lo S, Shin JH, Sciubba DM. Hospital Frailty Risk Score and Healthcare Resource Utilization After Surgery for Primary Spinal Intradural/Cord Tumors. Global Spine Journal 2022, 13: 2074-2084. PMID: 35016582, PMCID: PMC10556884, DOI: 10.1177/21925682211069937.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchHospital Frailty Risk ScoreNon-routine dischargeFrailty Risk ScoreImpact of frailtyCost of admissionDischarge dispositionFrail cohortPrimary tumorSpinal cordRisk scoreNationwide Inpatient Sample databaseRetrospective cohort studyHealthcare resource utilizationLength of stayPrimary spinal tumorsGreater mean costICD-10 codesICD-10-CM codesLarge national datasetPerioperative complicationsPostoperative complicationsAdult patientsCohort studyLonger LOSPatient characteristics