Through our surgical quality and safety research, we hope to have an evidence-based impact on the quality of patient care and patient safety. We are currently evaluating the role various physiological variables, operative techniques, and care delivery systems have on patient morbidity after spine surgery. Select projects include:
- Studying the effects of acute steroid-induced hyperglycemia on neurological morbidity during surgical treatment of spinal cord and spinal column tumors, cervical myelopathy.
- Defining reversible variables in care delivery that are associated with in-patient morbidity after spine surgery
- Evaluating treatment variables associated with prolonged length of hospital stay, increased resource utilization, and elevated hospital costs.
- Defining critical levels of intra-operative blood-loss and anemia associated with peri-operative morbidity.
