2023
Prevalence and Influence of Frailty on Hospital Outcomes After Surgical Resection of Spinal Meningiomas
Elsamadicy A, Koo A, Reeves B, Craft S, Sayeed S, Sherman J, Sarkozy M, Aurich L, Fernandez T, Lo S, Shin J, Sciubba D, Mendel E. Prevalence and Influence of Frailty on Hospital Outcomes After Surgical Resection of Spinal Meningiomas. World Neurosurgery 2023, 173: e121-e131. PMID: 36773810, DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2023.02.019.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHospital Frailty Risk ScoreLength of stayHealth care resource utilizationSpinal meningiomasNonroutine dischargeAdverse eventsDischarge dispositionInternational ClassificationExtended LOSMean LOSNational Inpatient Sample databaseFrailty Risk ScoreInfluence of frailtyImpact of frailtyRetrospective cohort studyPerioperative adverse eventsTenth Revision codesClinical Modification codesCost of admissionMultivariate regression analysisHospital outcomesPatient frailtyAdult patientsCohort studyPatient demographics
2022
Utilization of Machine Learning to Model Important Features of 30-day Readmissions following Surgery for Metastatic Spinal Column Tumors: The Influence of Frailty
Elsamadicy A, Koo A, Reeves B, Cross J, Hersh A, Hengartner A, Karhade A, Pennington Z, Akinduro O, Lo S, Gokaslan Z, Shin J, Mendel E, Sciubba D. Utilization of Machine Learning to Model Important Features of 30-day Readmissions following Surgery for Metastatic Spinal Column Tumors: The Influence of Frailty. Global Spine Journal 2022, 14: 1227-1237. PMID: 36318478, PMCID: PMC11289550, DOI: 10.1177/21925682221138053.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchHospital Frailty Risk ScoreSpinal column tumorsFrailty Risk ScoreInfluence of frailtySpinal column metastasesProportion of patientsRetrospective cohort studyNationwide Readmissions DatabaseRisk of readmissionMultivariate regression analysisIntermediate frailtyAdult patientsCohort studyIndependent predictorsSurgical interventionSpine surgeryReadmissionPatient readmissionRisk scorePatientsFrailtySurgeryCohortTumorsRegression analysis