Clinical outcomes research in spine surgery: what are appropriate follow-up times?
prospective_cohort · Level II
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 30579264.
- Also identified by DOI 10.3171/2018.8.SPINE18715.
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Abstract
In BriefThe time course required for the patient-reported outcomes of pain, physical function, and mental health to reach a recovery plateau after elective lumbar spine surgery was assessed utilizing a prospectively maintained multicenter registry. The work is important as it demonstrates that specific health dimensions follow different recovery plateaus and it provides evidence that a 2-year postoperative follow-up is not required to accurately assess the treatment effect of established surgeries for lumbar spinal pathologies.
Medical subject headings
- Intervertebral Disc Degeneration
- Lumbar Vertebrae
- Recovery of Function
- Spinal Stenosis
Anatomy
- lumbar spine