Prediction model for outcome after low-back surgery: individualized likelihood of complication, hospital readmission, return to work, and 12-month improvement in functional disability

Predicting surgical site infection after spine surgery: a validated model using a prospective surgical registry

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Defining the Value of Spine Care

(2013) J. A. Rihn et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS

The National Neurosurgery Quality and Outcomes Database (N2QOD): general overview and pilot-year project description

(2013) Matthew J. McGirt et al.   Neurosurgical Focus

Surgical Versus Nonoperative Treatment for Lumbar Disc Herniation

(2013) Jon D. Lurie et al.   SPINE

Predicting medical complications after spine surgery: a validated model using a prospective surgical registry

(2013) Michael J. Lee et al.   Spine Journal

Utility of minimum clinically important difference in assessing pain, disability, and health state after transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion for degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis

(2011) Scott L. Parker et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGERY-SPINE

Failed Back Surgery Syndrome

(2011) Chin-wern Chan et al.   PAIN MEDICINE

Comparative Effectiveness Evidence From the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial

(2011) Anna N. A. Tosteson et al.   SPINE

Low back pain in the United States: incidence and risk factors for presentation in the emergency setting

(2011) Brian R. Waterman et al.   Spine Journal

Trends, Major Medical Complications, and Charges Associated With Surgery for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis in Older Adults

(2010) Richard A. Deyo   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Surgical Compared with Nonoperative Treatment for Lumbar Degenerative Spondylolisthesis

(2009) James N Weinstein et al.   JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY-AMERICAN VOLUME

Where Is the Wisdom in Healthcare?

(2009) James Weinstein   SPINE

The Perfect Storm of Overutilization

(2008) Ezekiel J. Emanuel   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

A systematic review of low back pain cost of illness studies in the United States and internationally

(2008) Simon Dagenais et al.   Spine Journal