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Postoperative Opioid Use, Complications, and Costs in Surgical Management of Lumbar Spondylolisthesis. Spine Vail, D. n., Azad, T. D., O'Connell, C. n., Han, S. S., Veeravagu, A. n., Ratliff, J. K. 2017

Abstract

Retrospective analysis on a national longitudinal database (2007-2014).To determine the association between arthrodesis and complication rates, costs, surgical revision, and postoperative opioid prescription.Arthrodesis in patients receiving laminectomy for lumbar spondylolisthesis remains controversial. However, population-level evidence to support the use of arthrodesis remains limited.We identified 73,176 patient records and used coarsened exact matching to create comparable populations of patients who received laminectomy or laminectomy with arthrodesis. We use linear and logistic regression models to analyze the relationship between arthrodesis and postoperative complications, length of stay, costs, readmissions, surgical revisions, and postoperative opioid prescribing.Patients who underwent arthrodesis spent one more day in the hospital on average (p?

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