Predicting 90-Day and 1-Year Mortality in Spinal Metastatic Disease: Development and Internal Validation.

Journal: Neurosurgery
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Increasing prevalence of metastatic disease has been accompanied by increasing rates of surgical intervention. Current tools have poor to fair predictive performance for intermediate (90-d) and long-term (1-yr) mortality.

Authors

  • Aditya V Karhade
    Computational Neurosciences Outcomes Center, Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Quirina C B S Thio
    Q. C. B. S. Thio, A. V. Karhade, P. T. Ogink, K. Raskin, S. Lozano-Calderon, J. H. Schwab, Division of Orthopaedic Oncology, Department of Orthopaedics, Massachusetts General Hospital-Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA K. de Amorim Bernstein, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital-Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
  • Paul T Ogink
  • Christopher M Bono
    1Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Marco L Ferrone
    Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
  • Kevin S Oh
    Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Philip J Saylor
    Department of Hematology/Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Andrew J Schoenfeld
    Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
  • John H Shin
    2Department of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • Mitchel B Harris
    Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
  • Joseph H Schwab
    Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Electronic address: jhschwab@mgh.harvard.edu.