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Table 1 Basic characteristics of included studies

From: Risk factors for ninety-day readmission following cervical surgery: a meta-analysis

Author

Country

Study design

Procedure

Data source

Data collection Period

Patients

Outcomes

Rumalla2017

USA

RCS

PCF or PDWF

ND

2013.01–2013.09

29,990

Rumalla2018

USA

RCS

ACDF or TDR

ND

2013.01–2013.09

72,688

Dial2019

USA

RCS

ACDF

SC

2013–2017

1896

Goyal2019

USA

RCS

ACDF

ND

2012–2015

113,418

Elia2020

USA

RCS

OCF

ND

2016.01–2016.12

477

Schafer2020

USA

RCS

ACDF or PCF

SC

2014.02–2018.07

3762

Badiee2021

USA

RCS

PCF

SC

2012–2020

259

  1. USA the United States; RCS retrospective cohort study; ACDF anterior cervical discectomy and fusion; PCF posterior cervical fusion; PDWF posterior decompression without fusion; TDR total disk replacement; OCF occipitocervical fusion; ND national database; SC single center; and Age, American Society of Anesthesiology physical status class, Diabetes, Hypertension, Chronic heart diseases, Chronic lung diseases, Income, Payments for hospitalization