BACKGROUND Bundled care payment models are becoming more prevalent in neurosurgery.
Such systems place the cost of postsurgical facilities in the hands of the discharging …

Objective: Assess the safety of overlapping surgery before implementation of new
recommendations and regulations. Background: Overlapping surgery is a longstanding practice that …

Background The LACE+ index (Length of stay, Acuity of admission, Charlson Comorbidity
Index score, and Emergency department [ED] visits in the past 6 months) is a tool used to …

… Agarwal, Prateek AB; Ramayya, Ashwin G MD, PhD; Osiemo, Benjamin MS; Goodrich,
Stephen BS; Glauser, Gregory BS; McClintock, Scott D PhD; Chen, H Isaac MD; Schuster …

Background Context: Use of cervical bracing/collar subsequent to anterior cervical spine
discectomy and fusion (ACDF) is variable. Outcomes data regarding bracing after ACDF are …

Objective: The LACE + index (Length of stay, Acuity of admission, Charlson Comorbidity
Index (CCI) score, and Emergency department visits in the past 6 months) is a tool utilized to …

BACKGROUND Bundled care payments are increasingly being explored for neurosurgical
interventions. In this setting, skilled nursing facility (SNF) is less desirable from a cost …

BACKGROUND Several studies have explored the effect of overlapping surgery on patient
outcomes, but impact of surgical overlap during wound closure has not been studied. …

BACKGROUND As the use of bundled care payment models has become widespread in
neurosurgery, there is a distinct need for improved preoperative predictive tools to identify …

Objective: Our objective was to determine the impact of total preincision infusion time on
surgical site infections (SSIs) and establish an optimal time threshold for subsequent …