National Inpatient Burden, Treatment Patterns, and In-Hospital Mortality of Spinal Tuberculosis in Germany Amid Demographic Change: A Population-Based DRG Study, 2019–2025
Study Design Population-based ecological study. Objectives To quantify the national inpatient burden, treatment patterns, and in-hospital mortality of spinal tuberculosis (STB) in Germany, and to test whether demographic change is associated with STB hospitalisation rates. Methods The German InEK DRG browser was analys...