ReviewEuropean spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society2017
Do we have the right PROMs for measuring outcomes in lumbar spinal surgery?
Review in European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05070078 (The Single Assessment Numeric Evaluation), which is not on this map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The Single Assessment Numeric Evaluation (SANE): Is a Reliable Metric to Measure Clinically Significant Improvements After Lumbar Discectomy
Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Pooled it
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- Time Course of Functional Recovery Following Single-Level Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion with and Without Posterior Instrumentation: A Retrospective Single-Institution Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Associations of preoperative Oswestry Disability Index and EuroQol-5D with long-term all-cause mortality in patients undergoing percutaneous vertebroplasty.Archives of medical science : AMS · 2025Article
- Does physical performance demonstrate patient-reported outcomes after lumbar spine surgery?BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2024Article
- Reliability, Concurrent Validity, and Clinical Performances of the Shorter Version of the Roland Morris Disability Questionnaire in a Sample of Italian People with Non-Specific Low Back Pain.Journal of personalized medicine · 2024Article
- Patient-reported outcomes after minimally invasive sacro-iliac joint surgery: a cohort study based on the Swedish Spine Registry.Acta orthopaedica · 2024Article
- Get Back, a person-centred digital programme targeting physical activity for patients undergoing spinal stenosis surgery-a study protocol of a randomized feasibility study.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2024Article
- Reliability and validity of Oswestry Disability Index among patients undergoing lumbar spinal surgery.BMC surgery · 2024Article
- Validation of the Subjective Spine Value: A new single item score for the assessment of spine-specific function.Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery · 2023Article
- Is Advanced Age a Factor That Influences the Clinical Outcome of Single- or Double-Level MIS-TLIF? A Single-Center Study with a Minimum Two-Year Follow-Up on 103 Consecutive Cases.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Emerging Need for PROMs to Measure the Impact of Spine Disorders on Overall Health and Well-being: Measuring Expectations as an Example for Lumbar Degenerative Spondylolisthesis.HSS journal : the musculoskeletal journal of Hospital for Special Surgery · 2023Article
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- Smartphone GPS signatures of patients undergoing spine surgery correlate with mobility and current gold standard outcome measures.Journal of neurosurgery. Spine · 2021Article
- Construct validity and responsiveness of commonly used patient reported outcome instruments in decompression for lumbar spinal stenosis.Journal of clinical orthopaedics and trauma · 2021Article
- Patient-Reported Outcomes Following Lumbar Decompression Surgery: A Review of 2699 Cases.Global spine journal · 2021Article
- Prediction of Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) using PROMIS-29 in a national sample of lumbar spine surgery patients.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2019Article
- Dynamic balance in patients with degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis; a cross-sectional study.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2018Article
- The employment of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures to communicate the likely benefits of surgery.Patient related outcome measures · 2018Review
- Letter to the editor concerning "Do we have the right PROMs for measuring outcomes in lumbar spinal surgery?" by O.M. Stokes et al. Eur Spine J (2017) 26:816-824.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2018Article
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Abstract
purposePatient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) have become an important part of routine auditing of outcomes in spinal surgery in the UK. PROMs can be used to help assess the quality of care provided by surgical units by determining the comparative health status of patients, before and after surgery. This study was designed to review the PROMs used to assess outcomes in spinal surgery and to determine if they are fit for the purpose.
methodsA systematic literature search was undertaken to identify studies that reported PROMs data following lumbar spinal surgery. The PROMs that were used in each study were recorded and a separate search was undertaken to determine the evidence regarding the validity of each measure.
resultsThe initial search identified 1142 abstracts, which were reduced through de-duplication, filtering and review to 58 articles, which were retrieved and reviewed in full. The search identified that the majority of studies used either the Oswestry Disability Index (ODI), SF-36, Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire (RMDQ) and EQ-5D along with visual analogue scales or numeric rating scales for back and leg pain.
conclusionsThe consistent use of PROMs supports the comparison of outcomes from different studies, although there was minimal evidence regarding the specificity and sensitivity of these measures for use with lumbar spinal patients. Our review highlights the need to determine a consensus regarding the use and reporting of outcome measures within the lumbar spine literature.
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