2022
464 Hospital Frailty Risk Score and Healthcare Resource Utilization After Surgery for Metastatic Spinal Column Tumors
Elsamadicy A, Koo A, Reeves B, Pennington Z, Yu J, Goodwin C, Kolb L, Laurans M, Lo S, Shin J, Sciubba D. 464 Hospital Frailty Risk Score and Healthcare Resource Utilization After Surgery for Metastatic Spinal Column Tumors. Neurosurgery 2022, 68: 113-113. DOI: 10.1227/neu.0000000000001880_464.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchHospital Frailty Risk ScoreNon-routine dischargeFrailty Risk ScoreSpinal column tumorsPatient populationRisk scoreLarge national database studyNational Inpatient Sample databaseMultivariate logistic regression analysisICD-10 diagnostic codesProlonged hospital LOSImpact of frailtyNational database studyHealthcare resource utilizationRetrospective cohort studyTotal hospital costsProcedural Coding SystemLogistic regression analysisRegression analysisMultivariate regression analysisHospital LOSCohort studyHospital admissionIndependent predictorsLonger LOS
2021
Ramifications of Postoperative Dysphagia on Health Care Resource Utilization Following Elective Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Interbody Fusion for Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy
Elsamadicy AA, Koo AB, David WB, Freedman IG, Reeves BC, Ehresman J, Pennington Z, Sarkozy M, Laurans M, Kolb L, Shin JH, Sciubba DM. Ramifications of Postoperative Dysphagia on Health Care Resource Utilization Following Elective Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Interbody Fusion for Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy. Clinical Spine Surgery A Spine Publication 2021, 35: e380-e388. PMID: 34321392, DOI: 10.1097/bsd.0000000000001241.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHealth care resource utilizationCervical spondylotic myelopathyElective anterior cervical discectomyPostoperative dysphagiaRetrospective cohort studyAnterior cervical discectomySpondylotic myelopathyNonroutine dischargeHospital stayCervical discectomyCohort studyRisk factorsOdds ratioHigher total costsICD-10-CM diagnosisSignificant independent risk factorsNationwide Inpatient Sample databaseMultivariate stepwise logistic regressionLonger hospital LOSLonger hospital stayIndependent risk factorPatient risk factorsStepwise logistic regressionPaucity of dataHospital LOS