In Reply: Association of Overlapping Neurosurgery With Patient Outcomes at a Large Academic Medical Center

BACKGROUND Limited data exist on the safety of overlapping surgery, a practice that has recently received widespread attention. OBJECTIVE To examine the association of overlapping neurosurgery with patient outcomes. METHODS A total of 3038 routinely scheduled, elective neurosurgical procedures were retrospectively reviewed at a single, multihospital academic medical center. Procedures were categorized into any overlap or no overlap and further...