… predictive model of hospitalization costs after spine surgery. Several initiatives … cost. We
performed a retrospective cohort study involving 672,591 patients who underwent spine surgery …

… We found that spine surgery patients whose postoperative pain management included IV
APAP were associated with shorter LOS, lower hospitalization costs, lower opioid doses, less …

… to the hospital for patients with complications requiring prolonged hospitalization and heavy
… complications associated with spinal surgery and their associated costs must be considered. …

… ), sex, and previous spine surgery, or presence of comorbidities in the 12 months before …
Nearly 70% of hospitalized patients were 65 years or older (n = 18,888). In one decade, the …

… Thirty-seven cost-effectiveness studies on spine surgery were … spine and the remaining 10
(27%) involved the cervical spine. Of … hospitalization. Note as well that inpatient hospitalization …

… may increase the hospitalization cost of patients who undergo spine surgery.To study the …
underwent spine surgery between 2005 and 2008 at our institution, and their treatment costs (…

… Health care-related costs after lumbar spine surgery vary depending on procedure type … of
spinal levels, and presence of comorbidities probably have significant effects on overall costs. …

… (PO) or open surgery (OS) is more cost-effective in treatment … the clinical results and
hospitalization costs of OS and PO for … hospital charges applied to spine surgery. Despite a …

… Thus, there is likely even less variation within this study as compared to spine surgical …
Including secondary diagnoses, there were more than 223,000 hospitalizations associated …

… of spine surgery in the United States. Second, we limited our study to bundled payments
defined as index hospitalization cost plus postdischarge care. We did not include preindex …