Post-operative follow-up care after acute spinal trauma: What is the reality?

Celeste Tavolaro; Julie Agel; Matthew Vincent; Ekamjeet Dhillon; Edward Jung; Haitao Zhou

doi:10.1016/j.bas.2022.100905

Post-operative follow-up care after acute spinal trauma: What is the reality?

Brain Spine. 2022 Jun 14:2:100905. doi: 10.1016/j.bas.2022.100905. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Celeste Tavolaro¹, Julie Agel¹, Matthew Vincent¹, Ekamjeet Dhillon¹, Edward Jung¹, Haitao Zhou¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Harborview Medical, Center, 325 Ninth Ave, Seattle, WA, USA.

Abstract

•Only 23.7% of acute spinal trauma patients who underwent instrumentation met or surpassed one-year of clinical follow-up care.•Factors associated with lower rates of completed follow-up are ISS, presence of non-ambulatory spinal cord injury, history of IVDA, and insurance.•Increased rates of completed follow-up were seen in patients with a Workers'.