Quality of Life in Patients Undergoing Spine Surgery: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Study design

Meta-analysis.

Objective

Despite the increasing importance of tracking clinical outcomes using valid patient-reported outcome measures, most providers do not routinely obtain baseline preoperative health-related quality of life (HRQoL) data in patients undergoing spine surgery, precluding objective outcomes analysis in individual practices. We conducted a meta-analysis of pre- and postoperative HRQoL data obtained from the most commonly published instruments to use as reference values.

Methods

We searched PubMed, EMBASE, and an institutional registry for studies reporting EQ-5D, SF-6D, and Short Form-36 Physical Component Summary scores in patients undergoing surgery for degenerative cervical and lumbar spinal conditions published between 2000 and 2014. O

SUBMITTER: Nayak NR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6362549 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature