TY - GEN AU - Itagaki,Michael W AU - Talenfeld,Adam D AU - Kwan,Sharon W AU - Brunner,Julian W M AU - Mortell,Kelly E AU - Brunner,Michael C TI - Percutaneous vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty for pathologic vertebral fractures in the Medicare population: safer and less expensive than open surgery SN - 1535-7732 PY - 2013///0415 KW - Aged KW - Aged, 80 and over KW - Bone Neoplasms KW - complications KW - Chi-Square Distribution KW - Comorbidity KW - Female KW - Fractures, Spontaneous KW - economics KW - Health Care Costs KW - Hospice Care KW - Hospices KW - Humans KW - Kyphoplasty KW - adverse effects KW - Length of Stay KW - Logistic Models KW - Male KW - Medicare KW - Middle Aged KW - Multivariate Analysis KW - Odds Ratio KW - Patient Discharge KW - Patient Transfer KW - Rehabilitation Centers KW - Retrospective Studies KW - Risk Factors KW - Spinal Fractures KW - Spinal Fusion KW - Time Factors KW - Treatment Outcome KW - United States KW - Vertebroplasty N1 - Publication Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvir.2012.08.010 ER -