Brandon Lucke-Wold

Predicting Failure to Rescue After Surgery for Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy: An ACS-NSQIP Analysis (2015-2020).

BACKGROUND CONTEXT Failure to rescue (FTR), defined as 30-day mortality among patients who experienced a major complication, has emerged as a quality metric in spine surgery. Recent FTR analyses report high discrimination using prediction models combining pre- and postoperative variables into a single model. Whether th...