Unfulfilled Expectations After Surgery for Adult Lumbar Scoliosis Compared with Other Degenerative Conditions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients' expectations influence their decisions to undergo surgery for scoliosis, and fulfillment of expectations is an important patient-centered outcome.

Questions/purposes

In a 2-year cohort study, we compared the proportion of expectations fulfilled based on the number of vertebrae involved in surgery between adult lumbar scoliosis patients and controls with other degenerative conditions.

Methods

Patients pre-operatively completed a valid lumbar surgery expectations survey addressing expected improvements for symptoms, function, and psychosocial well-being (scores from 0 to 100; higher score indicates more expectations). Two years post-operatively, the patients completed another survey, this one recording how much improvement they actually experienced;

SUBMITTER: Mancuso CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7749892 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature