Responsiveness of Commonly Used Patient- Reported Outcome Instruments in Lumbar Microdiscectomy.

Conclusions: ODI, RMDQ, SF-12 PCS, and SF-12 MCS demonstrated adequate responsiveness in a homogenous cohort of patients who underwent lumbar micro-discectomy. ODI and RMDQ are equally responsive and, thus, are interchangeable instruments for region specific outcomes. Both the SF-12 PCS and SF-12 MCS can assess the quality of life following lumbar micro-discectomy.
PMID: 31154699 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Asian Spine Journal - June 5, 2019 Category: Orthopaedics Tags: Asian Spine J Source Type: research