Diagnostic Screening for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To develop a self-administered diagnostic screening questionnaire for lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) consisting of items with high content validity and to investigate the diagnostic value of the questionnaire and the items.

Patients and methods

A self-reported diagnostic LSS screening questionnaire was developed based on items from the existing literature describing key symptoms of LSS. The screening questionnaire (index test) was to be tested in a cohort of patients with persistent lumbar and/or leg pain recruited from a Danish publicly funded outpatient secondary care spine clinic with clinicians performing the reference test. However, to avoid unnecessary collection of data if the screening questionnaire proved to be of limited value, a case-control design was incor

SUBMITTER: Jensen RK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7450213 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature