Complications and healthcare utilization in commercially-insured osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture patients: a comparison of kyphoplasty versus propensity-matched controls.

ABSTRACT:

Background context

Osteoporotic vertebral fractures (OVFs) can lead to severe pain and reduced function and quality-of-life, but the strength of evidence for treatments remains low, particularly in younger populations.

Purpose

To determine whether patients with OVFs who received kyphoplasty had different patterns of healthcare utilization compared to propensity-matched patients who did not receive vertebral augmentation.

Design

Observational cohort study.

Patient sample

We identified patients with OVFs from 2007 to 2018 in the IBM MarketScan Commercial Claims and Encounters Databases who received kyphoplasty and compared them to propensity-matched controls who did not receive vertebral augmentation (either kyphoplasty or vertebroplasty).

Outcome measures

SUBMITTER: Gold LS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8349787 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature