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Decision Making in Surgical Treatment of Chronic Low Back Pain: The performance of prognostic tests to select patients for lumbar spinal fusion.
- Source :
- Acta Orthopaedica (Supplement); Feb2013 Supplement 349, Vol. 84, p1-37, 37p, 8 Black and White Photographs, 1 Diagram, 18 Charts, 2 Graphs
- Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- The article discusses the decision making process which is used by medical professionals in the surgical treatment of chronic low back pain. A discussion of research which investigated the side effects of lumbar spinal fusion and the performance of prognostic tests used to select patients with low back pain who could be eligible for lumbar spinal fusion is presented.
- Subjects :
- SPINAL fusion
CHRONIC pain
ANALYSIS of variance
LUMBAR pain
ACADEMIC dissertations
EPIDEMIOLOGY
INFORMATION storage & retrieval systems
MEDICAL databases
MEDICAL information storage & retrieval systems
MEDLINE
SCALE analysis (Psychology)
STATISTICS
SYSTEMATIC reviews
DATA analysis
VISUAL analog scale
DATA analysis software
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
PROGNOSIS
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17453690
- Volume :
- 84
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Acta Orthopaedica (Supplement)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 85716846
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3109/17453674.2012.753565