A calculator was created to predict a personalized mortality risk. Conclusion.The incidence of spine trauma in elderly patients continues to increase. Previous publications described preexisting conditions that imply increased mortality, but ours is the first to develop a predictive calculator. Prospective...
3). Online tools such as this calculator can help facilitate the wide-spread adoption of predictive models in the clinical setting, augment surgeon decision making by simulating surgical interventions and their corresponding outcomes (major complication, readmission and reintervention rates, as well as ...
METHODS Retrospective chart review was completed to record comorbidities, presenting injury information, frailty scores, imaging evidence of sarcopenia and osteopenia, presence of spinal cord injury, as well as long-term outcomes for all patients who underwent operative treatment. Operative specifics ...
The purpose of this study is to determine if the ACS NISQIP risk calculator can predict 30-day complications after cervical fusion.Methods: A retrospective chart review was performed on patients that underwent primary cervical fusions between January 2009 and 2015 at a single institution, utilizing ...
The purpose of this study is to determine if the ACS NISQIP risk calculator can predict 30-day complications after cervical fusion. Methods: A retrospective chart review was performed on patients that underwent primary cervical fusions between January 2009 and 2015 at a single institution, uti...