Single-Level Lumbar Fusion for Degenerative Disc Disease Is Associated with Worse Outcomes Compared with Fusion for Spondylolisthesis in a Workers' Compensation Setting

Spine

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 323-331

  Anderson, Joshua T ^a   Haas, Arnold R ^b   Percy, Rick ^b   Woods, Stephen T ^b   Ahn, Uri M ^c   Ahn, Nicholas U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^b Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation   (United States)

^c New Hampshire Neuro Spine Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

biopsychosocial; degenerative disc disease; disability; discogenic fusion; discogenic pain; low back pain; lumbar arthrodesis; lumbar fusion; narcotic dependence; opioid dependence; return to work; return to work status; spondylolisthesis; work related injury; workers' compensation

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; MORPHINE; OPIATE;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISABILITY; DISCOGENIC PAIN; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; POSTERIOR SPINE FUSION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETURN TO WORK; SINGLE LEVEL LUMBAR SPINE FUSION; SPINE FUSION; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; WORKMAN COMPENSATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; TRENDS;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORKERS' COMPENSATION;

EID: 84942588791     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0000000000000734     Document Type: Article

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