… Of the forty-three retrospective studies, thirty-seven (86%) relied on existing medical records
for the identification of specific postoperative complications. Only three studies (7%) used …

… low relative to other complications related to spine surgery. … Williams identified three (0.57%)
wrong-level spine surgeries … to make their best reasonable efforts to accurately identify the …

… The most consistent opportunity for problems regarding antibiotics for spinal surgery is in …
surgical procedure, the surgeon must ensure that the pathologic level is accurately identified. …

… assist the spine surgeon with the avoidance, identification, and management of complications.
… would be improved by a more accurate definition of what constitutes a complication. They …

… able to identify patients more likely to experience complications following spine surgery, both
… This study evaluated the accuracy of the RAT in predicting adverse events after individual …

… Respiratory and pulmonary complications The most common respiratory complication after
spine surgery is likely … A study identified three groups with a high risk of infection after spine …

… of the correct vertebral segment. Precise identification of the correct spinal level requires …
Although many cases of WSSS go unreported, this complication can and often does result …

… models to identify risk factors for complications following … complications after lumbar spine
surgery and we therefore chose it as a benchmark. Our AUC values demonstrate the accuracy …

… patients to ensure accurate patient expectations of planned medical or surgical interventions.
(… We sought to better define spinal surgery complicaa tions by identifying, validating, and …

… the “glm.nb” function in the R package “MASS” and with the link function “identity” so that the
… only the parameters that were associated with the accuracy of the model were included. The …