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David L. Skaggs

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Evaluating reasoning-tuned large language models for clinical decision-making in spine surgery.

PURPOSE Most clinical evaluations of large language models assess factual recall rather than the multi-step reasoning behind operative plans. Reasoning-tuned models, post-trained to generate explicit intermediate reasoning before answering, may better approximate surgical decision-making. We compared two such models fr...

C. Lam, Conor T. Boylan, Adit Ravishankar et al. · Spine Deformity · 0 citations

Open access Aug 2026

Frailty and Surgical Invasiveness Are Independently Associated with Complications in Pediatric Spinal Deformity Surgery.

BACKGROUND The purposes of this study were to determine whether frailty and surgical invasiveness are independently associated with perioperative outcomes and to describe the outcome rates when these 2 risk domains are considered together in pediatric patients undergoing spinal fusion for deformity. METHODS This was...

Vivien Chan, Andrea Simmonds, Luke Maclean et al. · Journal of Bone and Joint Su... · 0 citations