A comparison of readmission and complication rates and charges of inpatient and outpatient multiple-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion surgeries in the medicare population

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Diskectomy 100%
• Medicare 83%
• Inpatients 64%
• Outpatients 60%
• Comorbidity 41%
• Population 31%
• Postoperative Complications 23%
• Geriatrics 17%
• Anemia 15%
• Patient Readmission 10%
• Surgical Wound Infection 10%
• Chi-Square Distribution 8%
• Ambulatory Surgical Procedures 8%
• Urinary Tract Infections 8%
• Health Care Costs 8%
• Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus 7%
• Economics 6%
• Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus 6%
• Smoking 6%
• Logistic Models 5%
• Odds Ratio 5%
• Costs and Cost Analysis 5%
• Databases 5%
• Safety 5%