2020
Industry Payments to Orthopedic Spine Surgeons Reported by the Open Payments Database
Pathak N, Mercier MR, Galivanche AR, Mets EJ, Bovonratwet P, Bagi PS, Varthi AG, Grauer JN. Industry Payments to Orthopedic Spine Surgeons Reported by the Open Payments Database. Clinical Spine Surgery A Spine Publication 2020, 33: e572-e578. PMID: 32324671, DOI: 10.1097/bsd.0000000000000993.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2019
Admission NarxCare Narcotics Scores are not Associated With Adverse Surgical Outcomes or Self-reported Patient Satisfaction Following Elective Spine Surgery.
Galivanche AR, Mercier MR, Adrados M, Pathak N, McLynn RP, Anandasivam NS, Varthi AG, Rubin LE, Grauer JN. Admission NarxCare Narcotics Scores are not Associated With Adverse Surgical Outcomes or Self-reported Patient Satisfaction Following Elective Spine Surgery. Spine 2019, 44: 1515-1522. PMID: 31356498, DOI: 10.1097/brs.0000000000003120.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMultivariate logistic regressionPatient satisfactionAdverse eventsNarcotic scoreSurvey response rateSpine surgeryResponse rateLogistic regressionSelf-reported patient satisfactionElective spine surgeryPreoperative opioid usePostoperative patient satisfactionTime of admissionAdverse surgical outcomesSpine surgery casesHospital Consumer AssessmentHCAHPS survey resultsDifferent narcoticsNarcotic usagePerioperative outcomesNarcotic utilizationOpioid usePatient characteristicsPostoperative outcomesNarcotic group