The Decline and Fall of Concurrent Surgery

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James Richard Bean. World Neurosurg. 2017 May.

. 2017 May:101:776-778.

doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2017.01.132. Epub 2017 Feb 10.

¹ Baptist Health Medical Group, Lexington, Kentucky, USA. Electronic address: jbeanlex@aol.com.

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Keywords: Concurrent surgery; Cost analysis; Overlapping surgery; Patient outcomes; Patient safety; Running two rooms; Spine surgery.

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Comparison of Patient Outcomes and Cost of Overlapping Versus Nonoverlapping Spine Surgery.
Zygourakis CC, Sizdahkhani S, Keefe M, Lee J, Chou D, Mummaneni PV, Ames CP. Zygourakis CC, et al. World Neurosurg. 2017 Apr;100:658-664.e8. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2017.01.064. Epub 2017 Jan 27. World Neurosurg. 2017. PMID: 28137549