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Can we define success criteria for lumbar disc surgery?: Estimates for a substantial amount of improvement in core outcome measures

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: A successful outcome after lumbar discectomy indicates a substantial improvement. To use the cutoffs for minimal clinically important difference (MCID) as success criteria has a large potential bias, simply because it is difficult to classify patients who report that they are...

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Autores principales: Solberg, Tore, Johnsen, Lars Gunnar, Nygaard, Øystein P, Grotle, Margreth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Informa Healthcare 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3639342/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23506164
http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/17453674.2013.786634