Does Patient Sex Affect the Rate of Mortality and Complications After Spine Surgery? A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Available studies disagree regarding the influence of patient sex on mortality and complications after spine surgery. We sought to conduct a systematic review and pool the results of existing research to better understand this issue.

Questions/purposes

We performed a systematic review to address two questions: (1) Does sex (male versus female) influence mortality after spine surgery? (2) Does sex impact the development of postoperative complications after spine surgery?

Methods

This systematic review was performed through a query of PubMed using a structured search algorithm. Additional queries of Embase, SCOPUS, Web of Science, and the tables of contents of orthopaedic and neurosurgical journals were also conducted using search terms such as "sex factors",

SUBMITTER: Schoenfeld AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4488194 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature