Cervical Spine Reoperation Rates and Hospital Resource Utilization after Initial Surgery for Degenerative Cervical Spine Disease in 12 338 Patients in Washington State
King JT, Abbed KM, Gould GC, Benzel EC, Ghogawala Z. Cervical Spine Reoperation Rates and Hospital Resource Utilization after Initial Surgery for Degenerative Cervical Spine Disease in 12 338 Patients in Washington State. Neurosurgery 2009, 65: 1011-1023. PMID: 19934960, DOI: 10.1227/01.neu.0000360347.10596.bd.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDegenerative cervical spine diseaseCervical spine surgeryCervical spine diseaseLength of stayReoperation rateHospital chargesSpine diseaseSpine surgeryFusion surgeryPrimary diagnosisDegenerative cervical spine surgeryLongitudinal retrospective cohort studyGreater hospital chargesRetrospective cohort studyYear of surgeryHigher reoperation rateLower reoperation rateClinical Modification codesHospital resource utilizationDiseases-Ninth RevisionState Inpatient DatabasesMultivariate Poisson regressionVentral surgeryInitial surgeryCohort study