Comparison of Patient Outcomes and Cost of Overlapping Versus Nonoverlapping Spine Surgery

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
5634543	World Neurosurgery	2017	28 Pages	PDF

Abstract

Overlapping spine surgery may be performed safely at our institution, although continued monitoring of patient outcomes is necessary. Overlapping surgery does not lead to greater hospital costs.

Keywords

ASA Running two rooms Risk of mortality UCSF EBL SOI operating room American Society of Anesthesiology Patient safety Los emergency department Cost analysis estimated blood loss Spine surgery Concurrent surgery overlapping surgery University of California, San Francisco ROM Severity of illness length of stay Patient outcomes

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Comparison of Patient Outcomes and Cost of Overlapping Versus Nonoverlapping Spine Surgery

Authors

Corinna C. Zygourakis, Saman Sizdahkhani, Malla Keefe, Janelle Lee, Dean Chou, Praveen V. Mummaneni, Christopher P. Ames,