Associations between future health expectations and patient satisfaction after lumbar spine surgery: a longitudinal observational study of 9929 lumbar spine surgery procedures.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study aimed to investigate the associations between general health expectations and patient satisfaction with treatment for the two common spine surgery procedures diskectomy for lumbar disk herniation (LDH) and decompression for lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS).

Design

Register study with prospectively collected preoperative and 1-year postoperative data.

Setting

National outcome data from Swespine, the national Swedish spine register.

Participants

A total of 9929 patients, aged between 20 and 85 years, who were self-reported non-smokers, and were operated between 2007 and 2016 for one-level LSS without degenerative spondylolisthesis, or one-level LDH, were identified in the national Swedish spine register (Swespine). We used SF-36 items 11c and 11d

SUBMITTER: Joelson A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10533696 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature