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Patients with no preoperative back pain have the best outcome after lumbar disc herniation surgery
PurposeMost patients with lumbar disc herniations requiring surgery have concomitant back pain. The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the...
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Single item self-rated general health: SF-36 based observations from 16,910 spine surgery procedures
PurposeIn spine surgery single item patient-reported outcome assessment has been used for many years. Items 1 and 2 of SF-36 are used for assessment...
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Validity of the short musculoskeletal function assessment questionnaire in patients with a spine fracture
PurposeThe aim of this study was to validate the use of the Short Musculoskeletal Function Assessment (SMFA) questionnaire in patients with a spine...
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Does loss to follow-up lead to an overestimation of treatment success? Findings from a spine surgery registry of over 15,000 patients
PurposePatient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are integral to the assessment of treatment success, but loss to follow-up (attrition) may lead to...
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The Finnish spine register (FinSpine): development, design, validation and utility
PurposeOur aim was to develop a nationwide, computer-based, Spine Register (FinSpine) for monitoring surgical activity, quality of surgery, long-term...
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Operative treatment of cervical radiculopathy: anterior cervical decompression and fusion compared with posterior foraminotomy: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
BackgroundCervical radiculopathy is the most common disease in the cervical spine, affecting patients around 50–55 year of age. An operative...
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Responsiveness of the SF-36 general health domain: observations from 14883 spine surgery procedures
PurposeThe study evaluated perceptions of general health (GH) after surgical treatment of spinal stenosis and disk herniation. We used a large...
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Non-respondents do not bias outcome assessment after cervical spine surgery: a multicenter observational study from the Norwegian registry for spine surgery (NORspine)
BackgroundThe Norwegian registry for spine surgery (NORspine) is a national clinical quality registry which has recorded more than 10,000 operations...
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ISSLS prize in clinical science 2020: the reliability and interpretability of score change in lumbar spine research
PurposeA statistically significant score change of a PROM (Patient-Reported Outcome Measure) can be questioned if it does not exceed the clinically...
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Obese people benefit from lumbar spinal stenosis surgery as much as people of normal weight
BackgroundLumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is a common degenerative condition of the spine that causes back pain radiating to the lower extremity....
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Predictors of satisfaction after lumbar disc herniation surgery in elderly
BackgroundThe aim of this study was to evaluate satisfaction and factors associated with satisfaction in elderly undergoing lumbar disc herniation...
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Current trends in the medical treatment of neuropathic low back pain: a Swedish registry-based study of 1.7 million people
BackgroundLow back pain, a common problem worldwide, causes more global disability than any other condition and is associated with high costs to...
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Properties of the EQ-5D-3L index distribution when longitudinal data from 27,328 spine surgery procedures are applied to nine national EQ-5D-3L value sets
PurposeThe purpose of the current study was to apply a single large longitudinal EQ-5D-3L data set to several national EQ-5D-3L value sets and...
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Response rates in clinical quality registries and databases that collect patient reported outcome measures: a sco** review
BackgroundPatient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) are being increasingly introduced in clinical registries, providing a personal perspective on the...
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MRI-based measurements of spondylolisthesis and kyphosis in degenerative cervical myelopathy
BackgroundTo provide normative data and to determine accuracy and reliability of preoperative measurements of spondylolisthesis and kyphosis on...
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A pain relieving reimbursement program? Effects of a value-based reimbursement program on patient reported outcome measures
BackgroundValue - based reimbursement programs have become increasingly common. However, little is known about the effect of such programs on patient...
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Effects of pre-surgery physiotherapy on walking ability and lower extremity strength in patients with degenerative lumbar spine disorder: Secondary outcomes of the PREPARE randomised controlled trial
BackgroundDegenerative lumbar spine disorders are common among musculoskeletal disorders. When disabling pain and radiculopathy persists after...
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Collection and use of EQ-5D for follow-up, decision-making, and quality improvement in health care - the case of the Swedish National Quality Registries
BackgroundThe Swedish National Quality Registries (NQRs) contain individual-level health care data for specific patient populations, or patients...
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Minor effect of loss to follow-up on outcome interpretation in the Swedish spine register
Background and purposeLoss to follow-up in observational studies may skew results and hamper study reliability. We evaluated the importance of loss...
