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In the present study, the authors investigated the impact of patient and hospital-level risk factors on extended LOS following elective PSF surgery (\u2265 4 levels) for AIS.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>METHODS<\/jats:title><jats:p>The Kids\u2019 Inpatient Database (KID) was queried for the year 2012. Adolescent patients (age range 10\u201317 years) with AIS undergoing elective PSF (\u2265 4 levels) were selected using the <jats:italic>International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification<\/jats:italic> coding system. Extended hospital LOS was defined as greater than the 75th percentile for the entire cohort (&gt; 6 days), and patients were dichotomized as having normal LOS or extended LOS. Patient demographics, comorbidities, complications, LOS, discharge disposition, and total cost were recorded. A multivariate logistic regression model was used to determine the odds ratio for risk-adjusted LOS. The primary outcome was the degree to which patient comorbidities or postoperative complications correlated with extended LOS.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>RESULTS<\/jats:title><jats:p>Comorbidities were overall significantly higher in the extended-LOS cohort than the normal-LOS cohort. Patients with extended LOS had a significantly greater proportion of blood transfusion (p &lt; 0.001) and \u2265 9 vertebral levels fused (p &lt; 0.001). The overall complication rates were greater in the extended-LOS cohort (20.3% [normal-LOS group] vs 43.5% [extended-LOS group]; p &lt; 0.001). On average, the extended-LOS cohort incurred $18,916 more in total cost than the normal-LOS group ($54,697 \u00b1 $24,217 vs $73,613 \u00b1 $38,689, respectively; p &lt; 0.001) and had more patients discharged to locations other than home (p &lt; 0.001) than did patients in the normal-LOS cohort. On multivariate logistic regression, several risk factors were associated with extended LOS, including female sex, obesity, hypertension, fluid electrolyte disorder, paralysis, blood transfusion, \u2265 9 vertebrae fused, dural injury, and nerve cord injury. The odds ratio for extended LOS was 1.95 (95% CI 1.50\u20132.52) for patients with 1 complication and 5.43 (95% CI 3.35\u20138.71) for patients with &gt; 1 complication.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>CONCLUSIONS<\/jats:title><jats:p>The authors\u2019 study using the KID demonstrates that patient comorbidities and intra- and postoperative complications all contribute to extended LOS after spinal fusion for AIS. 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