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John K. Ratliff
Researcher at Stanford University
Publications - 237
Citations - 7250
John K. Ratliff is an academic researcher from Stanford University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Retrospective cohort study & Population. The author has an hindex of 42, co-authored 218 publications receiving 5868 citations. Previous affiliations of John K. Ratliff include National Institutes of Health & Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.
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Chronic Opioid Use After Surgery: Implications for Perioperative Management in the Face of the Opioid Epidemic.
TL;DR: An analysis of the extent to which opioid-sparing perioperative interventions have been shown to reduce the risk of chronic opioid use after surgery and a discussion of future research directions are presented.
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Obesity and spine surgery: relation to perioperative complications
Nimesh Patel,Bradley Bagan,Sumeet Vadera,Mitchell Maltenfort,Harel Deutsch,Alexander R. Vaccaro,James S. Harrop,Ashwini Sharan,John K. Ratliff,John K. Ratliff +9 more
TL;DR: Obesity is a prevalent condition in patients undergoing elective fusion for degenerative spinal conditions and may increase the prevalence and incidence of perioperative complications and the authors correlated increasing BMI and increased risk of significant postoperative complications.
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Cervical laminoplasty: a critical review
John K. Ratliff,Paul R. Cooper +1 more
TL;DR: A metaanalysis of the English-language laminoplasty literature found that there was progressive loss of cervical ROM, and final ROM similar to that seen in patients who had undergone laminectomy and fusion, and the authors could not confirm the occurrence of postlaminectomy membrane causing clinically significant deterioration of neurological function.
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Complications in spine surgery
Rani Nasser,Sanjay Yadla,Mitchell Maltenfort,James S. Harrop,D. Greg Anderson,Alexander R. Vaccaro,Ashwini Sharan,John K. Ratliff +7 more
TL;DR: This analysis is the first to critically assess differing complication incidences reported in prospective and retrospective cervical and thoracolumbar spine surgery studies.
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Adult scoliosis surgery outcomes: a systematic review.
TL;DR: Surgery for adult scoliosis is associated with improvement in radiographic and clinical outcomes at a minimum 2-year follow-up and the lack of routine use of standardized outcomes measures and assessment in the adult scliosis literature is highlighted.