Publications

“Lumbosacral and global spinal alignment are increasingly understood to affect health-related quality of life and long-term survivability of spinal fusion procedures.”

“In spine surgery, racial disparities have been shown to impact various aspects of surgical care.”

“Postoperative spinopelvic alignment as a primary goal of spinal fusions is increasingly being considered as the relationships between postoperative alignment and long-term construct survivability and patient health-related quality of life continue to be demonstrated.”

“Unplanned hospital readmissions contribute significantly to soaring national healthcare expenditures.”

“Early hospital readmission has become a proxy for quality of care and contributes significantly to high health care costs in the United States, with more than $20 billion health care dollars are spent on 30-day readmission annually.”

“Recently, mortality rates have increasingly been used as proxies for quality of care and determinants of hospital reimbursements.”

“Hospital readmission after surgery results in a substantial economic burden, and several recent studies have investigated the impact of race and ethnicity on hospital readmission rates, with the goal to identify hospitals and patients with high readmission risk.”

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There is a paucity of data determining the impact that gender disparities have on spine outcomes, particularly perception of health and satisfaction.”

“Sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) is a recently proposed construct that refers to a genetically influenced tendency to more strongly and deeply process a variety of information.”