Reoperation
Scientists at Veterans Affairs Medical Center target reoperation
Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, March 12th, 2010
Fresh data on reoperation are presented in the report 'Cervical spine reoperation rates and hospital resource utilization after initial surgery for degenerative cervical spine disease in 12,338 patients in Washington State.' "Patients undergoing surgery for degenerative cervical spine disease may require future surgery for disease progression. We investigated factors related to the rate of additional cervical spine surgery, the associated length of stay, and hospital charges," scientists in the United States report.
"The was a longitudinal retrospective cohort study using Washington state's 1998 to 2002 state inpatient databases and International Classification of...
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