The Qualification of Outcome after Cervical Spine Surgery by Patients Compared to the Neck Disability Index.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The Neck Disability Index (NDI) is a patient self-assessed outcome measurement tool to assess disability, and that is frequently used to evaluate the effects of the treatment of neck-related problems. In individualized medicine it is mandatory that patients can interpret data in order to choose a treatment. A change of NDI or an absolute NDI is generally meaningless to a patient. Therefore, a correlation between the qualification of the clinical situation rated by the patient and the NDI score was evaluated.

Methods

Patients who completed an NDI after anterior surgery because of symptomatic single level degenerative cervical disc disease were asked one month after completion of the NDI to qualify their clinical situation of a 5-item Likert scale varying from excell

SUBMITTER: Donk R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4995029 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature