The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
Oct 13, 2020
As the use of machine learning algorithms in the development of clinical prediction models has increased, researchers are becoming more aware of the deleterious effects that stem from the lack of reporting standards. One of the most obvious consequen...
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
Sep 22, 2020
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: The introduction and integration of robot technology into modern spine surgery provides surgeons with millimeter accuracy for pedicle screw placement. Coupled with computer-based navigation platforms, robot-assisted spine surgery ...
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
Apr 12, 2020
BACKGROUND: Intraoperative vascular injury (VI) may be an unavoidable complication of anterior lumbar spine surgery; however, vascular injury has implications for quality and safety reporting as this intraoperative complication may result in serious ...
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
Mar 4, 2020
BACKGROUND: Surgical site infections are a major driver of morbidity and increased costs in the postoperative period after spine surgery. Current tools for surveillance of these adverse events rely on prospective clinical tracking, manual retrospecti...
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
Dec 23, 2019
BACKGROUND: Incidental durotomy is a common intraoperative complication during spine surgery with potential implications for postoperative recovery, patient-reported outcomes, length of stay, and costs. To our knowledge, there are no processes availa...
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
Nov 20, 2019
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Although quantitative measurements improve the assessment of disc degeneration, acquirement of quantitative measurements relies on manual segmentation on lumbar magnetic resonance images (MRIs), which may introduce subjective bias...
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
Sep 13, 2019
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Traumatic spinal cord injury can have a dramatic effect on a patient's life. The degree of neurologic recovery greatly influences a patient's treatment and expected quality of life. This has resulted in the development of machine ...
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
Sep 7, 2019
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Preoperative survival estimation in spinal metastatic disease helps determine the appropriateness of invasive management. The SORG ML 90-day and 1-year machine learning algorithms for survival in spinal metastatic disease were pre...
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
Jun 27, 2019
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: In-hospital and short-term mortality in patients with spinal epidural abscess (SEA) remains unacceptably high despite diagnostic and therapeutic advancements. Forecasting this potentially avoidable consequence at the time of admis...