<p class="jove_content">This protocol describes a retrospective single-center method for quantifying postoperative length of stay after minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion and testing whether patient-level perioperative variables independently predict extended postoperative stay, using a clinically grounded cutoff, multivariable logistic regression, bootstrap validation, and pre-specified sensitivity analyses.</p>

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Postoperative Length of Stay After Minimally Invasive Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion: Analysis of Perioperative Predictors

Length of stay is a key quality and cost metric after minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (MIS-TLIF). Published benchmarks vary ...

Institution - People's Hospital of Chongqing Hechuan

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