Publications by authors named "HyungWook Ji"
Medicina (Kaunas)
August 2023
Article Synopsis
- * A total of 6,194 claims related to 6,074 patients were evaluated, revealing an increase in the number of surgeries and associated medical costs over the years, with decompression surgeries being more common initially but fusion surgeries becoming more frequent in subsequent procedures.
- * The findings indicated that patients undergoing fusion procedures had longer hospital stays and incurred higher costs, while there was also a rise in opioid and non-opioid pain medication prescriptions from 2010 to 2019.
