Surgical compared with nonoperative treatment for lumbar degenerative spondylolisthesis: Four-year results in the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT) randomized and observational cohorts

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1295-1304

  Weinstein, James N ^a   Lurie, Jon D ^a   Tosteson, Tor D ^a   Zhao, Wenyan ^a   Blood, Emily A ^a   Tosteson, Anna N A ^a   Birkmeyer, Nancy ^b   Herkowitz, Harry ^c   Longley, Michael ^d   Lenke, Lawrence ^e   Emery, Sanford ^f   Hu, Serena S ^g  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Nebraska Foundation for Spinal Research   (United States)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; STEROID;

ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BOTHERSOMENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DEGENERATIVE SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; DURA MATER TEAR; EXERCISE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAMINECTOMY; LEG PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPERATION DURATION; OSWESTRY DISABILITY INDEX; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULAR PAIN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; SELF CONCEPT; SHORT FORM 36; SPINE FUSION; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; SURGICAL INJURY; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT REFUSAL; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; ADULT; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBABILITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL FUSION; SPINAL STENOSIS; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67649888508     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.H.00913     Document Type: Article

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