2023
Do Children With Medicaid Insurance Have Increased Revision Rates 5 Years After Posterior Spinal Fusions?
Moore H, Patibandla S, McClung A, Grauer J, Sucato D, Wise C, Johnson M, Rathjen K, McIntosh A, Ramo B, Brooks J. Do Children With Medicaid Insurance Have Increased Revision Rates 5 Years After Posterior Spinal Fusions? Journal Of Pediatric Orthopaedics 2023, 43: 615-619. PMID: 37694695, DOI: 10.1097/bpo.0000000000002504.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPosterior spinal fusionAdolescent idiopathic scoliosisMedicaid insurancePrivate insuranceRevision surgerySpinal fusionInternational ClassificationBaseline medical comorbiditiesKaplan-Meier analysisLog-rank testSegmental spinal instrumentationLong fusion constructsBaseline comorbiditiesIndependent t-testIndex surgeryMedical comorbiditiesPostoperative complicationsCause revisionCohort studyNinth RevisionAIS patientsRevision codesPrimary diagnosisHigh prevalenceMedicaid patients
2022
Total Hip Arthroplasty Imageless Navigation Does Not Reduce 90-Day Adverse Events or Five-Year Revisions in a Large National Cohort
Jayaram R, Gillinov S, Caruana D, Kammien A, Joo P, Rubin L, Grauer J. Total Hip Arthroplasty Imageless Navigation Does Not Reduce 90-Day Adverse Events or Five-Year Revisions in a Large National Cohort. The Journal Of Arthroplasty 2022, 38: 862-867. PMID: 36529197, DOI: 10.1016/j.arth.2022.12.012.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTotal hip arthroplastyAdverse eventsImageless navigationMultivariate analysisLarge national administrative databaseElixhauser comorbidity index scorePrimary total hip arthroplastyComorbidity Index scoreFive-year incidencePostoperative adverse eventsNational administrative databaseLarge national cohortLarge national databaseCause revisionTHA patientsWound dehiscenceNational cohortTHA casesAdministrative databasesDislocation rateHip arthroplastyHigher oddsNavigation groupIndex scoreComputer navigation