Development of appropriateness criteria for the surgical treatment of symptomatic lumbar degenerative spondylolisthesis (LDS)

European Spine Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1903-1917

  Mannion, A F ^a   Pittet, V ^b   Steiger, F ^a   Vader, J P ^b   Becker, H J ^a   Porchet, F ^a   Balague F ^c   Brox, J I ^c   Cedraschi, C ^c   Fairbank, J ^c   Fekete, T F ^c   Fritzell, P ^c   Jeszenszky, D ^c   Lurie, J ^c   Pellise F ^c   Reitmann, C ^c   Sonntag, V ^c   Standaert, C ^c   Szpalski, M ^c  

^a SCHULTHESS CLINIC   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Appropriateness of surgery; Lumbar degenerative spondylolisthesis; RAND appropriateness method (RAM)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DATA ANALYSIS; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FACE VALIDITY; HUMAN; LUMBAR DEGENERATIVE SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRAM APPROPRIATENESS; SPINE FUSION; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; CLASSIFICATION; DISABILITY; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; PATIENT SELECTION; STANDARDS; SURGERY;

DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DISABILITY EVALUATION; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; PATIENT SELECTION; SPINAL FUSION; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS;

EID: 84906858740     PISSN: 09406719     EISSN: 14320932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-014-3284-0     Document Type: Article

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