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## Study design: A retrospective case-control study. ## Objectives: To explore the personal and physical factors influencing the decision of patients to opt for spinal surgery. ## Methods: The medical records of patients who attended the spine nurse clinic of a hospital in hong kong in the year 2017 were retrieved and reviewed. comparisons were made of the physical symptoms, myelopathy, sensory deficits, and level of disability of patients who decided to undergo spinal surgery (case) and those who did not (control). ## Results: Among the 122 medical records that were reviewed, it was found that 102 (83.6%) patients decided to undergo spinal surgery (case) while 20 (16.4%) chose not to (control). the patients in the case group were more likely to be unemployed than those in the control group (67% vs. 35%, p = 0.01), to have higher scores in primary pain (4.75 vs. 2.6, p = 0.003), higher scores in radiated pain (4.4 vs. 2.55, p = 0.021), a higher level of disability as reflected in a higher oswestry disability index (odi) score (41.6 vs. 30.9, p = 0.021), and a lower japanese orthopedic association (joa) score (13.7 vs. 15.6, p = 0.008). point biserial correlation showed that exercis

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Author

Lam, William Wing-Kuen; Loke, Alice Yuen; Wong, Chun-Kwan

Publisher

Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 1878-1241)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)