Home Care After Lumbar Fusion: Friend or Foe?

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If you’ve spent any time rounding on post–lumbar fusion patients, you’ve probably noticed two things:

1. Everyone asks when they can go home.
2. No one agrees on what happens after they get there.

A group of Philadelphia based spine surgeons have investigated whether home care (HC) after lumbar fusion is a soothing balm for recovery, or a Trojan horse for readmissions, ED visits, and surgeon despair.