Introduction: Patient satisfaction is of increasing importance in the delivery of quality healthcare
and may influence provider reimbursement. The purpose of this study is to examine how …

Study Design: Retrospective cohort study. Objectives: Anterior cervical discectomy and
fusion (ACDF) demonstrates reliable improvement in neurologic symptoms associated with …

Study Design. Retrospective study. Objective. To elucidate an association between preoperative
lumbar epidural corticosteroid injections (ESI) and infection after lumbar spine surgery. …

Background Previous knee injury requiring surgical intervention increases the rate of future
arthroplasty. Coding modifiers for removal of previous hardware or increased complexity …

Routine preoperative stress radiographs have been advocated, in part, to determine “full
correctability” of deformities before proceeding with unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) …

Study Design Retrospective cross-sectional, longitudinal radiographic analysis. Objective
To report the natural history of spinopelvic parameters in achondroplasia. Summary of …

Background The purpose of this study is to compare perioperative outcomes for total hip
arthroplasty (THA) at an orthopedic specialty hospital (OSH) and a general hospital (GH). …

Background Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) at 3 or more levels remains
challenging, with reported high pseudarthrosis rates and implant-related complications. Porous …

The premise for using intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring (IONM) during anterior
cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF), or any other spinal operation, is to permit early …

This study compared perioperative outcomes for total knee arthroplasty (TKA) at an orthopedic
specialty hospital and a tertiary referral center. The authors identified all primary TKA …