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Computerized questionnaires and the quality of survey dataBrett Hanscom
Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 27:1797-801. 2002..A retrospective data quality analysis was conducted...
Surgical vs nonoperative treatment for lumbar disk herniation: the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT) observational cohortJames N Weinstein
Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA
JAMA 296:2451-9. 2006..However, the large numbers of patients who crossed over between assigned groups precluded any conclusions about the comparative effectiveness of operative therapy vs usual care...- Surgical versus nonsurgical treatment for lumbar degenerative spondylolisthesisJames N Weinstein
Department of Orthopaedics, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH, USA
N Engl J Med 356:2257-70. 2007..Management of degenerative spondylolisthesis with spinal stenosis is controversial. Surgery is widely used, but its effectiveness in comparison with that of nonsurgical treatment has not been demonstrated in controlled trials... - Surgical versus nonsurgical therapy for lumbar spinal stenosisJames N Weinstein
Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Department of Orthopedics, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH 03756, USA
N Engl J Med 358:794-810. 2008..Surgery for spinal stenosis is widely performed, but its effectiveness as compared with nonsurgical treatment has not been shown in controlled trials... - The cost effectiveness of surgical versus nonoperative treatment for lumbar disc herniation over two years: evidence from the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT)Anna N A Tosteson
Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH 03756, USA anna tosteson dartmouth edu
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 33:2108-15. 2008.... 
Proxy perspectives regarding end-of-life care for persons with cancerMarie Bakitas
School of Nursing, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Cancer 112:1854-61. 2008..Family proxies have been proposed as valuable informants regarding the quality of end-of-life care. This article describes family proxy perspectives concerning care at the end of life in patients who died of advanced cancer...- Surgical vs nonoperative treatment for lumbar disk herniation: the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT): a randomized trialJames N Weinstein
Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA
JAMA 296:2441-50. 2006..Lumbar diskectomy is the most common surgical procedure performed for back and leg symptoms in US patients, but the efficacy of the procedure relative to nonoperative care remains controversial... - Reliability and validity of the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Palliative care (FACIT-Pal) scaleKathleen Doyle Lyons
Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA
J Pain Symptom Manage 37:23-32. 2009..40, P<0.001). The findings support the internal consistency reliability and validity of the FACIT-Pal as a measure of health-related quality of life for persons with advanced cancer... - Association between obesity and functional status in patients with spine diseaseJason C Fanuele
Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Spine 27:306-12. 2002..05). CONCLUSIONS: General and disease-specific functional health status was significantly worse for patients with a higher body mass index. Obese patients also displayed more severe pain symptoms than nonobese spine patients... - The impact of comorbidities on the change in short-form 36 and oswestry scores following lumbar spine surgeryJames Slover
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA
Spine 31:1974-80. 2006.... - Retrolisthesis and lumbar disc herniation: a preoperative assessment of patient functionMichael Shen
Orthopaedic Surgery Resident, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, 301 E 17th Street, New York, NY 10003, USA
Spine J 7:406-13. 2007..Neither the prevalence of this condition in individuals with lumbar disc herniations nor its possible relation to preoperative back pain and dysfunction has been well studied... - What is different about workers' compensation patients? Socioeconomic predictors of baseline disability status among patients with lumbar radiculopathySteven J Atlas
General Medicine Division, Medical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 32:2019-26. 2007..Combined analysis of 2 prospective clinical studies... - Prospective clinical outcomes of revision fusion surgery in patients with pseudarthrosis after posterior lumbar interbody fusions using stand-alone metallic cagesEzequiel H Cassinelli
Department of Orthopaedics, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case School of Medicine, 11100 Euclid Avenue, OH 44106, USA
Spine J 6:428-34. 2006..Complications have been reported, however, including pseudarthrosis with persistent pain. Outcomes after revision surgical treatment for these patients with failed PLIF are not known... - An observational study on the prevalence and pattern of opioid use in 25,479 patients with spine and radicular painGilbert J Fanciullo
Department of Anesthesiology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 27:201-5. 2002..A cross-sectional analysis of data obtained from patients with spinal and radicular pain and their spine center treating physicians was performed... - Influence of smoking on the health status of spinal patients: the National Spine Network databaseMolly T Vogt
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 27:313-9. 2002..Multicenter, cross-sectional analysis of data from the National Spine Network... - Three-question depression screener used for lumbar disc herniations and spinal stenosisHoward I Levy
Emory Spine Center, Emory University School of Medicine, Decatur, Georgia, USA
Spine 27:1232-7. 2002.... - Descriptive epidemiology and prior healthcare utilization of patients in the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial's (SPORT) three observational cohorts: disc herniation, spinal stenosis, and degenerative spondylolisthesisJustin Cummins
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA
Spine 31:806-14. 2006..The data provided from these observational cohorts will serve as an important comparison to the SPORT randomized cohorts in the future... - The impact of four common lumbar spine diagnoses upon overall health statusMichael A Pahl
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, 1015 Chestnut St, Suite 719, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
Spine J 6:125-30. 2006..These patients were also more likely to perceive their health as poor, experience decreased energy, and have more social impairment when compared with their age/gender norms... - Is a condition-specific instrument for patients with low back pain/leg symptoms really necessary? The responsiveness of the Oswestry Disability Index, MODEMS, and the SF-36Thomas L Walsh
The Spine Center at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 28:607-15. 2003..Analysis of longitudinal data collected prospectively from patients seen in 27 National Spine Network member centers across the United States... - Cluster analysis classification of SF-36 profiles for patients with spinal painGilbert J Fanciullo
Department of Anesthesiology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 28:2276-82. 2003..A k-means cluster analysis of patients with spinal and radicular pain based on the SF-36 Health Survey scales... - Psychometric update of the Functional Interference Estimate: a brief measure of pain functional interferenceRobert J Ferguson
Department of Psychiatry, Behavioral Medicine Section, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756, USA
J Pain Symptom Manage 28:389-95. 2004..g., SF-36 and Dartmouth COOP Charts). Because of its brevity and flexibility, the FIE may be a useful self-report measure of pain functional interference in clinical research on pain... - The rate and variation of referrals to behavioral medicine services for patients reporting poor mental health in the national spine networkThomas L Walsh
Spine Center, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 30:E154-60. 2005..Descriptive analysis of cross-sectional data collected prospectively in 20 National Spine Network (NSN) centers... - Screening for depressive symptoms in patients with chronic spinal pain using the SF-36 Health SurveyThomas L Walsh
The Spine Center, Department of Orthopedics at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, One Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
Spine J 6:316-20. 2006..Although a specific and reliable survey to detect depression could be employed, an additional survey would unnecessarily increase responder and analyst burdens if the general health status survey could be used instead... - A controlled trial of methods for managing pain in primary care patients with or without co-occurring psychosocial problemsTim A Ahles
Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA
Ann Fam Med 4:341-50. 2006..Pain, a common reason for visits to primary care physicians, is often not well managed. The objective of this study was to determine the effectiveness of pain management interventions suitable for primary care physicians... - Cluster analysis of SF-36 scales as a predictor of spinal pain patients response to a multidisciplinary pain management approach beginning with epidural steroid injectionRyan Loyd
Department of Anesthesiology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
Pain Med 7:229-36. 2006..Few differences in outcome occurred among the subgroups. CONCLUSION: The SF-36-determined subgroups did not predict response to a multidisciplinary pain clinic. All three subgroups showed similar improvement following treatment...