Spine
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Analysis of patient-level diagnostic and cost data from an administrative database. ⋯ SCI entails costly hospital care and high risk of hospital-acquired illness. Some of these complications are preventable. Better understanding of the financial costs of these episodes can assist healthcare providers and funders to weigh the benefits of interventions to reduce the rates of complications in these vulnerable patients.
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Experimental study. ⋯ The vertebral growth continues during GR instrumentation. Distraction forces might stimulate also apophyseal growth of axial skeleton.