Standardized measures of health status and disability and the decision to pursue operative treatment in elderly patients with degenerative scoliosis

Neurosurgery

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 42-47

  Fu, Kai Ming G ^a   Smith, Justin S ^a   Sansur, Charles A ^a   Shaffrey, Christopher I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; COMORBIDITY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEALTH STATUS; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSWESTRY DISABILITY INDEX; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADICULOPATHY; REOPERATION; REVIEW; SCOLIOSIS; SCOLIOSIS RESEARCH SOCIETY QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF EVALUATION; SHORT FORM 12; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE SURGERY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECISION MAKING; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOLIOSIS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 77249093518     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000361999.29279.E6     Document Type: Review

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