Spine
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The effects of hospital and surgeon volume on postoperative complications after LumbarSpine surgery.
Retrospective review. ⋯ The mortality and complication rates associated with lumbar spine surgery are lower when patients are treated by high-volume surgeons and hospitals.
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A retrospective cohort study from a single institution of a consecutive series of spine surgery patients. ⋯ Adjunctive local application of vancomycin powder decreases the postsurgical wound infection rate with statistical significance in posterior instrumented thoracolumbar spine fusions.
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A clinical prospective study. ⋯ The recovery rate of the JOA score in the ADF group was better than that in the LAMP group. The clinical outcomes after LAMP could be influenced by ACS.
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Cross-sectional mail questionnaire. ⋯ With one exception, SRS-24, SRS-23, and SRS-22 questionnaire, nonmanagement domains, and individual domain total scores and mean scores can be translated to SRS-22r scores with fair to excellent accuracy, which is further improved in some instances by minimal domain reconfigurations. The sole exception is SRS-24 self-image, which translates poorly.