Postoperative adverse events after spinal surgery: Sex-specific risk profiles and ICU utilization.

Brain Spine · 2026 · PMC13087688 · PMID 42006925

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highly significantp < 0.001actually significant

Similarly, for non-neurosurgical complication, highly significant predictors included age (aOR 1.052 per year, p < 0.001), Infection (aOR 6.064, p < 0.001), and trauma (aOR 3.217, p < 0.001), while female sex had a non-significant aOR of 0.912 (p = 0.705). 5.5 Subgroup analysis of ICU admission The independent effect of sex on ICU utilization appeared concentrated in higher-risk procedures.

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did not reach statistical significancep = 0.115not close (p > 0.1)

The interaction term for sex \times procedure was directional but did not reach statistical significance (p = 0.115).

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