Measuring Surgical Outcomes in Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy Patients Undergoing Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion: Assessment of Minimum Clinically Important Difference

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Auffinger, Brenda M ^a   Lall, Rishi R ^b   Dahdaleh, Nader S ^b   Wong, Albert P ^b   Lam, Sandi K ^a   Koski, Tyler ^b   Fessler, Richard G ^b   Smith, Zachary A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CERVICAL DISCECTOMY AND FUSION; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CERVICAL SPONDYLOTIC MYELOPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENTAL COMPONENT SUMMARY PRO SCORE; MINIMUM CLINICALLY IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE; MINIMUM DETECTABLE CHANGE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NECK DISABILITY INDEX; OPERATION DURATION; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL COMPONENT SUMMARY PRO SCORE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SHORT FORM 36; SMOKING; SPINE SURGERY; STANDARD ERROR OF MEASUREMENT; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISKECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ROC CURVE; SPINAL FUSION; SPONDYLOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 84879493052     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067408     Document Type: Article

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