Postoperative improvement in health-related quality of life: A national comparison of surgical treatment for focal (one- to two-level) lumbar spinal stenosis compared with total joint arthroplasty for osteoarthritis

Spine Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1033-1041

  Rampersaud, Y Raja ^a,b   Wai, Eugene K ^c,d   Fisher, Charles G ^e   Yee, Albert J M ^f   Dvorak, Marcel F S ^e   Finkelstein, Joel A ^f   Gandhi, Rajiv ^a   Abraham, Edward P ^g   Lewis, Stephen J ^a,b   Alexander, David I ^h   Oxner, William M ^h   Davey, J R ^a   Mahomed, Nizar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^f SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^g Atlantic Health Science Corporation   (Canada)

^h DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Health related quality of life; Hip; Knee; Osteoarthritis; Spinal stenosis; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HIP OSTEOARTHRITIS; HUMAN; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SHORT FORM 36; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINE FUSION; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; CANADA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY OF LIFE; SPINAL FUSION; SPINAL STENOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84858779789     PISSN: 15299430     EISSN: 18781632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spinee.2011.10.011     Document Type: Article

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