The impact of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and obesity on length of stay and cost of spine surgery

BACKGROUND: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and obesity may be more common among spine surgery patients than in the general population and may affect hospital cost. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We retrospectively studied the prevalence of COPD and obesity among 605 randomly selected spine sur...

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Autores principales: Sami Walid, M, Zaytseva, Nadezhda V
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2947730/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20924484
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5413.67120

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2947730/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20924484
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5413.67120

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