Postoperative satisfaction following lumbar spinal fusion surgery: patient expectation versus actuality.

CONCLUSIONS: In this observational study, the authors determined that the actual postoperative results following surgery were strongly correlated with patient satisfaction, while the patients' expectation, the expectation-actuality discrepancy, and the postoperative improvement did not demonstrate strong correlations for all patient-reported outcome measures utilized in this study. The investigation results suggest that the most important indicator of how satisfied patients feel following surgery may be the actual outcome itself, rather than the preoperative expectation or the degree to which the expected result was met. PMID: 31349221 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Neurosurgery.Spine - Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Tags: J Neurosurg Spine Source Type: research