Grab your coffee (or that third cup), spine surgeons — it’s time to talk about something more complex than a T12 fracture: the intersection of race, outcomes, and the operating room.
Between 2015 and 2020, Ortega and colleagues dove headfirst into the ACS-NSQIP database — a veritable treasure trove of surgical data — to answer one big question: Does race or ethnicity predict who bounces back after spine surgery…and who faces more bumps along the recovery road?
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