2017
Impact of Gender Disparities on Short-Term and Long-Term Patient Reported Outcomes and Satisfaction Measures After Elective Lumbar Spine Surgery: A Single Institutional Study of 384 Patients
Elsamadicy AA, Reddy GB, Nayar G, Sergesketter A, Zakare-Fagbamila R, Karikari IO, Gottfried ON. Impact of Gender Disparities on Short-Term and Long-Term Patient Reported Outcomes and Satisfaction Measures After Elective Lumbar Spine Surgery: A Single Institutional Study of 384 Patients. World Neurosurgery 2017, 107: 952-958. PMID: 28743671, DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2017.07.082.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsElective lumbar spine surgeryLumbar spine surgeryVisual analog scaleSpine surgeryMale cohortPerception of healthFemale cohortAnalog scaleMean changeBaseline patient-reported outcome measuresVisual analog scale leg painEuroQol 5 dimensions questionnairePatient-reported outcome measuresPatient-reported outcome instrumentsBaseline patient demographicsLonger hospital stayOswestry Disability IndexSingle institutional studyOverall patient satisfactionLong-term patientsPatient-reported outcomesPatient satisfaction measuresPaucity of dataSpine OutcomesDisability IndexAssociation of Intraoperative Blood Transfusions on Postoperative Complications, 30-Day Readmission Rates, and 1-Year Patient-Reported Outcomes
Elsamadicy AA, Adogwa O, Vuong VD, Mehta AI, Vasquez RA, Cheng J, Bagley CA, Karikari IO. Association of Intraoperative Blood Transfusions on Postoperative Complications, 30-Day Readmission Rates, and 1-Year Patient-Reported Outcomes. Spine 2017, 42: 610-615. PMID: 28399073, DOI: 10.1097/brs.0000000000001803.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPerioperative allogeneic RBC transfusionAllogeneic RBC transfusionElective spine surgeryPostoperative complication rateReadmission ratesRBC transfusionSpine surgeryPostoperative complicationsComplication rateThirty-day hospital readmission ratesAllogeneic red blood cell transfusionRed blood cell transfusionMultivariate logistic regression analysisMultivariate logistic regression modelPatient-reported outcome instrumentsHigher perioperative complicationsPostoperative hemoglobin levelsIntraoperative blood transfusionBlood cell transfusionHospital readmission ratesMajor academic medical centerLogistic regression analysisAcademic medical centerQuality of careLogistic regression models
2016
Do measures of surgical effectiveness at 1 year after lumbar spine surgery accurately predict 2-year outcomes?
Adogwa O, Elsamadicy AA, Han JL, Cheng J, Karikari I, Bagley CA. Do measures of surgical effectiveness at 1 year after lumbar spine surgery accurately predict 2-year outcomes? Journal Of Neurosurgery Spine 2016, 25: 689-696. PMID: 26722957, DOI: 10.3171/2015.8.spine15476.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTransforaminal lumbar interbody fusionLumbar spine surgeryAnterior lumbar interbody fusionLong-term outcomesLateral interbody fusionLumbar interbody fusionSpine surgeryInterbody fusionSurgical effectivenessOutcome measuresSF-36 physical component summary scorePhysical component summary scoreLongitudinal assessmentPatient-reported outcome instrumentsAchievement of MCIDMultiinstitutional prospective studyVAS leg painComponent summary scoresClinical outcome dataPatient-centered measuresLogistic regression modelingIneffective patient careInstitutional registryOutcomes RegistrySF-36