Cost-utility of lumbar decompression with or without fusion for patients with symptomatic degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis

Spine Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 44-54

  Kim, Salin ^a   Mortaz Hedjri, Soroush ^b   Coyte, Peter C ^b,c,d   Rampersaud, Y Raja ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^d CANADIAN INSTITUTES OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Canada)

^e TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cost utility analysis; Decompression; Degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis; Instrumented fusion; Surgical intervention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPINE FUSION; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS;

EID: 84856410445     PISSN: 15299430     EISSN: 18781632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spinee.2011.10.004     Document Type: Article

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