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 ageRace Is an Independent Predictor for Nonroutine Discharges After Spine Surgery for Spinal Intradural/Cord Tumors
Elsamadicy AA, Koo AB, David WB, Reeves BC, Freedman IG, Pennington Z, Ehresman J, Kolb L, Laurans M, Shin JH, Sciubba DM. Race Is an Independent Predictor for Nonroutine Discharges After Spine Surgery for Spinal Intradural/Cord Tumors. World Neurosurgery 2021, 151: e707-e717. PMID: 33940256, DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2021.04.085.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNonroutine discharge dispositionIndependent predictorsNonroutine dischargeDischarge dispositionCord tumorsAA raceSurgical interventionNational Inpatient Sample databaseMultivariable logistic regression analysisStepwise multivariable logistic regression analysisBackward stepwise multivariable logistic regression analysisAfrican AmericansPostoperative complication rateRetrospective cohort studyClinical Modification diagnosisLength of hospitalizationProcedural Coding SystemLogistic regression analysisHealth care costsRegression analysisMultivariate regression analysisAA/BlackPostoperative complicationsCohort studyComplication rate