Treatment biases in traumatic neurosurgical care: A retrospective study of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample from 1998 to 2009

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Inpatients 100%
• Retrospective Studies 83%
• Spinal Fractures 47%
• Craniotomy 36%
• Spinal Fusion 30%
• Traumatic Intracranial Hemorrhage 27%
• International Classification of Diseases 25%
• Therapeutics 20%
• Decompression 16%
• Hematoma 15%
• Mortality 12%
• Wounds and Injuries 12%
• Neurosurgical Procedures 11%
• Odds Ratio 10%
• Spinal Injuries 10%
• Confidence Intervals 9%
• Resource Allocation 9%
• Insurance Coverage 9%
• Intracranial Hemorrhages 9%
• Propensity Score 8%
• Insurance Benefits 8%
• Insurance 8%
• Traumatic Brain Injury 8%
• Comorbidity 6%
• Spine 6%
• Multivariate Analysis 5%
• Demography 5%