Independent Associations With 30- and 90-Day Unplanned Readmissions After Elective Lumbar Spine Surgery: A National Trend Analysis of 144 123 Patients.
Elsamadicy AA, Ren X, Kemeny H, Charalambous L, Sergesketter AR, Rahimpour S, Williamson T, Goodwin CR, Abd-El-Barr MM, Gottfried ON, Xie J, Lad SP. Independent Associations With 30- and 90-Day Unplanned Readmissions After Elective Lumbar Spine Surgery: A National Trend Analysis of 144 123 Patients. Neurosurgery 2018, 84: 758-767. PMID: 29893899, DOI: 10.1093/neuros/nyy215.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsElective lumbar spine surgeryChronic obstructive pulmonary disorderLumbar spine surgeryNational Readmission DatabaseUnplanned hospital readmissionPatient risk factorsUnplanned readmissionHospital readmissionSpine surgeryDeficiency anemiaInsurance statusRisk factorsElective spinal surgeryUnplanned readmission rateObstructive pulmonary disorderMultivariate regression analysisPaucity of dataInpatient complicationsNational healthcare expendituresReadmission ratesDural tearPulmonary disordersIndependent associationPatient outcomesSpinal surgery