Neighborhood disadvantage predicts health resource utilization after lumbar spine surgery: a cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Socioeconomic factors are increasingly recognized in spine surgery outcomes. Although neighborhood-level deprivation is gaining traction in health outcomes research, its impact in lumbar spine surgery remains inconclusive.

Objectives

We aimed to evaluate the association between area deprivation index and 90-day unplanned readmissions, reoperations, complications, and length of stay after lumbar spine surgery.

Methods

All adult patients who underwent lumbar spine procedures at a single institution between 2011 to 2023 were retrospectively identified using Current Procedural Terminology and International Classification of Diseases 9/10 codes. Geospatial analysis was used to retrieve area deprivation index, with higher indices (> 90) being a high degree of nei

SUBMITTER: Sun Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12669313 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature