A5021433932- Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
- Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques
- Medical Imaging and Analysis
- Cervical and Thoracic Myelopathy
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Scoliosis diagnosis and treatment
- Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment
- Management of metastatic bone disease
- Meningioma and schwannoma management
- Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- Anesthesia and Pain Management
- Brain Metastases and Treatment
- Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
- Bone Tumor Diagnosis and Treatments
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
- Spinal Hematomas and Complications
- Pituitary Gland Disorders and Treatments
- Cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus
- Head and Neck Surgical Oncology
- Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
- Neurofibromatosis and Schwannoma Cases
- Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries
- Neuroblastoma Research and Treatments
Stanford University
2016-2025
Stanford Medicine
2013-2025
Tel Aviv University
2024
University of St. Gallen
2024
Palo Alto University
2016-2023
University Hospital of Zurich
2021
University of Zurich
2021
Copyright Licensing Agency
2021
Neurological Surgery
2008-2020
University Hospital and Clinics
2019-2020
Low back pain (LBP) with or without lower extremity (LEP) is one of the most common reasons for seeking medical care. Previous studies investigating costs in this population targeted patients receiving surgery. Little known about health care utilization among who do not undergo surgery.To assess use resources LBP and LEP management analyze associated costs.This cohort study used a retrospective analysis commercial database containing inpatient outpatient data more than 75 million...
This is a multivariate analysis of prospectively collected database.To determine preoperative, intraoperative, and patient characteristics that contribute to an increased risk postoperative wound infection in patients undergoing spinal surgery.Current literature sites rate approximately 4%; however, few have completed factors which infection.Our study identified who underwent decompression fusion between 1997 2006 from the Veterans Affairs' National Surgical Quality Improvement Program...
OBJECTIVE The ability to assess the risk of adverse events based on known patient factors and comorbidities would provide more effective preoperative stratification. Present assessment in spine surgery is limited. An event prediction tool was developed predict complications after tested a prospective cohort. METHODS spinal Risk Assessment Tool (RAT), novel instrument for patients undergoing that an administrative claims database, prospectively applied 246 257 procedures over 3-month period....
Few neurosurgeons practicing today have had training in the field of endoscopic spine surgery during residency or fellowship. Nevertheless, over past 40 years individual surgeons from around world worked to create a subfield minimally invasive that takes point visualization away surgeon's eye lens microscope and puts it directly at pathology. What follows is an attempt describe story how developed credit some those who been biggest contributors its development.
Background: Adult spinal deformities (ASD) are varied abnormalities, often necessitating surgical intervention when associated with pain, worsening deformity, or function. Predicting post-operative complications and revision surgery is critical for planning patient counseling. Due to the relatively small number of cases ASD surgery, machine learning applications have been limited traditional models (e.g., logistic regression standard neural networks) coarse clinical variables. We present...
OBJECTIVE To systematically analyze patient outcomes after repeat transsphenoidal (TS) surgery for recurrent Cushing's disease. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed records of all patients with disease who underwent TS resection a pituitary corticotroph adenoma at the University Virginia Medical Center from 1992 to 2006. Remission follow-up was defined as normal postoperative 24-hour urine free cortisol, or continued need glucocorticoid replacement surgery. Recurrence an elevated cortisol...
<h3>Object</h3> Whether there is an increased surgical risk in elderly patients who undergo craniotomy for meningioma resection remains a point of controversy. Utilising multicentre, prospective data from the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program, present study sought to address this <h3>Methods</h3> All underwent intracranial (current procedural terminology codes 61512 and 61519) between 1997 2006 at 123 VA hospitals around country were included. After controlling preoperative...
The aim of this study was describe national trends in prevalence, demographics, hospital length stay (LOS), charges, and mortality for burn patients with without inhalational injury to compare the National Burn Repository. Burns inhalation cause considerable morbidity United States. There remains insufficient reporting demographics outcomes surrounding such injuries. Inpatient Sample database, nation's largest all-payer inpatient care data repository, utilized select 506,628 admissions burns...
Background: Postoperative metrics are increasingly important in determining standards of quality for physicians and hospitals. Although complications following spinal surgery have been described, procedural patient variables yet to be incorporated into a predictive model adverse-event occurrence. We sought develop complication occurrence after spine surgery. Methods: used longitudinal prospective data from national claims database developed incorporating type frequency procedures. structured...
Retrospective propensity score-matched analysis on a national database (MarketScan) between 2006 and 2010.To compare rates of neurological deficits after elective single-level spinal procedures with without intraoperative neuromonitoring, as well associated payment differences geographic variance.Intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring is technique that may contribute to avoiding permanent injury during some spine surgery procedures. However, it unclear whether all patients undergoing...
Abstract BACKGROUND Outpatient anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) is a promising candidate for US healthcare cost reduction as several studies have demonstrated that overall complications are relatively low early discharge can preserve high patient satisfaction, morbidity, minimal readmission. OBJECTIVE To compare clinical outcomes associated costs between inpatient ambulatory setting ACDF. METHODS Demographics, comorbidities, emergency department (ED) visits, readmissions,...
OBJECTIVE Preoperative depression has been linked to a variety of adverse outcomes following lumbar fusion, including increased pain, disability, and 30-day readmission rates. The goal the present study was determine whether preoperative is associated with narcotic use fusion. Moreover, authors examined association between secondary quality indicator economic outcomes, complications, readmissions, revision surgeries, likelihood discharge home, 1- 2-year costs. METHODS A retrospective...
Abstract Background Recent technological advances have led to the development and implementation of machine learning (ML) in various disciplines, including neurosurgery. Our goal was conduct a comprehensive survey neurosurgeons assess acceptance attitudes toward ML neurosurgical practice identify factors associated with its use. Methods The online consisted nine or ten mandatory questions distributed February March 2019 through European Association Neurosurgical Societies (EANS) Congress...