Study Design: Literature Review (Narrative). Objective: To contextualize AO Spine RECODE-
DCM research priority number 5: What is the socio-economic impact of DCM?(The financial …

Abstract Purpose of Review Social determinants of health (SDH) are factors that affect
patient health outcomes outside the hospital. SDH are “conditions in the environments …

Study Design Systematic review Objectives We sought to synthesize the literature
investigating the disparities that Medicaid patients sustain with regards to 2 types of elective …

Background Our goal was to systematically review the literature on racial/ethnic, insurance,
and socioeconomic disparities in adult spine surgery in the United States and analyze …

Objectives Our objective was to analyze the collective effect of social determinants of health
(SDoH) on lumbar spine surgery outcomes utilizing two different statistical methods of …

OBJECTIVE Several studies have described disparities between male and female patients
following spine surgery, but no pooled analyses have performed a robust review …

Background Prior studies associate male gender with higher complication rates following
anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF), but none has investigated gender influence …

Objective The objective of this study is to examine factors associated with delayed time to
achieve minimum clinically important difference (MCID) in patients undergoing lumbar …

Methods: Medical literature was reviewed within PubMed for RCTs with “spine” in the title or
abstract published within the last 8 years (2014 to 2021) in seven major spine journals. This …

Study Design. Retrospective cohort study of the Nationwide Readmissions Database (NRD).
Objective. To determine causes of and independent risk factors for 30-and 90-day …