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ArticleEvidence-based medicine2016

Surgery and physical therapy likely yield similar outcomes in spinal stenosis.

Sohail K Mirza

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Article in Evidence-based medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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0citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 41% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sohail K MirzaDepartment of Orthopaedics, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA.
Dartmouth College · US

Funding

Outcomes Calculators for Informed Decision Making in Back SurgeryP60AR062799 · NIAMS · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · PI TOSTESON, ANNA N. A. · 2012 to 2016
$6.1M
NIAMS NIH HHS P60AR062799
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Decompression, SurgicalLumbar VertebraePhysical Therapy ModalitiesFemaleHumansMaleSpinal StenosisNEUROSURGERY

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PMID26729775
OpenAlexW2225869786

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